Category: music

“I loved your idea of matching the musical notes with the graphs of temperatures and CO2 concentrations, but the resulting melodies were unfortunate. I was unable to find any tenor or baritone able to sing either of the graphs. A pity — as you said, the High C0 Duet would have been “an opera first.”

“From iTunes to the iPlayer, you might think that you don’t need to record anything anymore. It’s just out there, all the time, waiting to be Googled. But the hunter-gatherer instinct is alive and well.”

“It is estimated that more than half a million businesses across the UK are playing music illegally. But many of them don’t even know it.”

“The venerable opera house saw its attendance numbers drop to the season’s lowest level on Monday, the same day Austria took on Germany in the city’s Ernst Happel stadium, the Staatsoper said in a statement.”

Not stolen, exactly. But ownership of the CBC’s iconic theme for Hockey Night in Canada was plucked away from the network by rival CTV, which came up with pots of money.

“Opera America elected Houston Grand Opera General Director and CEO Anthony Freud as its chairman. He succeeds Opera Theater of St. Louis General Director Charles MacKay, who served for two terms, or four years.”

“Apparently 85 percent of music majors end up working “in the field,” although fewer than five percent are full-time professional performers. These are some pretty telling figures: Most music students will be doing something in music–teaching, administration, and so forth–but not what they went to college to do.”

Popular culture’s rich pantheon is heaving with lady geniuses, but reading the music and mainstream press you wouldn’t know it.

Downloadable tunes for music-based games “Guitar Hero,” “Rock Band” and “SingStar” have become as vital as iTunes itself — and one of the last ways to expose youngsters to classic rock.

“Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young people’s music ownership has found.”