Says Klaus Heymann on his label group’s subscription streaming service, which offers more than 85,000 CDs on 250 labels, “Today more than 60% of music is consumed on mobile devices. I read a sci-fi novel years ago in which you could get your music from a socket in the wall. Now you don’t even need the socket.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Get Ready For All The Spider-Man Disaster Dish
Glen Berger’s upcoming tell-all book “chronicles the ugly slide of the once close creators, the director Julie Taymor and the composers Bono and the Edge, of U2, into a morass of betrayals, lawsuits, and petty slaps, like a producer’s yanking Ms. Taymor’s tickets for the show’s opening night.”
As Artworks Get Enormous, Galleries Selling Them Get Cavernous (Or Vice Versa)
“Thanks to a resurgent global-art market, some of the world’s top dealers are feeling flush and fueling a new gallery building boom – transforming factories, roller rinks and airplane hangars into showrooms for contemporary art. … Increasingly, the artworks on display are just as enormous, requiring cranes and teams of workers to display.”
Will The U.S.’s Tallest Statue Be Erected In A Suburb Of Tulsa?
Shan Gray, “a 57-year-old sculptor of Osage tribal heritage, is on a quixotic quest to erect a 217-foot-high bronze rendering of a Native American warrior with an eagle perched on his arm.”
Artist Flees Russia As Police Seize Painting Of Putin In Lingerie
Police in St. Petersburg confiscated four satirical paintings – including one of Putin, wearing a slip, combing the hair of Prime Minister Medvedev, in bra and panties – from a small gallery called the Museum of Power. Artist Konstantin Altunin has reportedly fled to France, where he will seek asylum.
An Oral History Of The 1963 March On Washington
On the 50th anniversary of that turning point in American history, Smithsonian offers testimony from those who were there – from John Lewis and Eleanor Holmes Norton to civil rights workers Rachelle Horowitz and Barry Rosenberg to singer Harry Belafonte and the widow of march leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy.
France’s Public Broadcaster To Cut 600 Jobs
“Following a yearlong financial crisis, as government funding cuts and the loss of evening advertising resulted in a massive budget shortfall, public broadcaster wseeks to cut costs as part of its recovery plan.”
When Woody Allen First Got Serious: Revisiting Interiors
“Much of what’s great about Interiors comes from Allen writing a piercing drama, straight from the heart; much of what’s bad about Interiors comes from his arid feints at duplicating a master.”
New Deadline Set For Resolving Minnesota Orchestra Lockout
“Music director Osmo Vänskä has said the orchestra must be in rehearsal by Sept. 30 to be ready for the early November concerts. To make that happen, orchestra management said Wednesday that it would need to reach agreement with its union musicians by Sept. 15.”
Could These Apps Be Pointing The Way To Classical Music’s Future?
“In May digital-software publisher Touch Press offered a sophisticated app for Apple’s mobile devices that allows users to explore Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. And it has thus far been downloaded more than 620,000 times.” The company already has two more, with some heavyweight talent involved.