Category: music

Eminem filed proceedings against New Zealand’s then governing party in September 2014 for using a version of his chart-topping song Lose Yourself in an election campaign advertisement.

“In a sign of health for the city’s arts community, the Columbus Symphony has hired an executive director for the first time since budget cuts forced the elimination of the position in 2012. Denise Rehg – vice president of development for the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, which had been managing the business side of the symphony – was appointed to the symphony position on Monday.”

Music teachers have never had lower pay or less job security, a new report by the Musicians’ Union (MU) has found. It also stresses job dissatisfaction is on the rise due to a widespread lack of financial support, such as maternity pay and sick pay, and questions the extent to which a career in music teaching “is still viable”.

“The researchers used EEG to compare the electrical brain activity of 12 Jazz musicians (with improvisation training), 12 Classical musicians (without improvisation training), and 12 non-musicians while they listened to a series of chord progressions. Some of the chords followed a progression that was typical of Western music, while others had an unexpected progression.”

“In 2006, a New England Conservatory student named Edward Guo founded the online portal IMSLP, or International Music Score Library, a kind of Wikipedia for musicians. Now the site contains some 350,000 scores and 40,000 recordings from 14,000 composers. The works of composers who have been dead for less than 70 years are not in the public domain and don’t appear on the site. Still, IMSLP is omnipresent enough that I’ve encountered music students who assumed there were no scores to Strauss songs at all, since they weren’t showing up there.”

“Silkroad turns twenty next year. Like a teenager approaching adulthood, we are exploring our purpose in the world. … One thing we have discovered is the joy and significance of working as an ensemble, and at this turning point, we are formalizing a new approach to leadership that celebrates that collaborative spirit. To this end, I am thrilled to hand over the artistic direction of Silkroad to Jeffrey Beecher, Nicholas Cords, and Shane Shanahan, three extraordinary colleagues who have taught me so much about collaboration, music, and friendship.”

According to The Brown Daily Herald, orchestral students had complained about Brown’s leadership. Orchestra member Katerina Rademacher told the paper that Brown acted “in an intimidating manner that made students fearful and anxious to approach him.”