“Perhaps most importantly, I discovered more music in 2015 than I ever have before. According to my iTunes library, not accounting for tracks I added and later removed, I added 3,329 songs. My next closest year is 2013, when I added 1,837 tracks.”
Category: music
World’s Largest Jazz And Blues Record Store Closes
“We had a lot of people knocking on the doors this morning. We did open at 10 and did a fair amount of business for the short time we were open. Once the deal was finalized, that’s when we had to close the doors.”
What Will Happen To The 100 Million Tracks On SoundCloud If The Site Goes Bust?
“It wouldn’t be the first time a massive trove of digital music disappeared. In 2003, CNET shut down the original version of music publishing service mp3.com, which once hosted 750,000 song files. Three years later, the Internet Underground Music Archive, consisting of over 680,000 songs, went offline as well.”
Vancouver Opera Hires Festival Director For Its Top Job As Company Transforms To A Festival
“Vancouver Opera is changing from its traditional programming of staging three large and one small production a year to two large and two small productions. The new format includes staging three of the four works in a three-week period in the spring.”
‘Macbeth’ In The Congo, Lars Von Trier On Stage: Opera Philadelphia’s 2016-17 Season
Those two surprises are part of the company’s September mini-festival, a dry-run for the following season’s O17; the season also includes operas staged especially for Christine Goerke and Stephanie Blythe.
Classical Grammys: Bostonians, Seiji, Joyce And Tony, Stephen Triumph; You Can Guess Who Won In Musical Theater (Alexander)
No, it’s not 1979: the Boston Symphony and Seiji Ozawa won for two separate recordings. So did composer Stephen Paulus.
Jazz Grammy Voters Choose Experience Over Youth
Pianist Joey Alexander, 12, got multiple nominations for his debut album, My Favorite Things, but came away from the ceremony empty-handed. Recording Academy members mostly went for more familiar names, such as Maria Schneider, John Scofield, and Christian McBride.
The Producer Of The Grammys On Making Musical Moments And Predicting The Winners
“We’re also faced with some challenges that we haven’t had in the past, in particular the loss of some pretty significant people, artists, performers who we feel the need to in some way recognize on the show. So things keep changing.”
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finding A Balance And Living In the Present
“As Salonen’s music becomes increasingly in demand, he keeps finding surprises. For instance, he had had long dreamed of being in the position where different conductors want to premiere his pieces. ‘Mostly that experience has been very good,’ he says. ‘But there is now a new category in my planning, which is hanging around doing nothing.'”
The Sanders Campaign Has A House DJ? Yes It Does
“‘The Internet went a little crazy last week,’ Mr. Sandico said, referring to the Iowa party. ‘I was just like, ‘I’m going to play Rob Base,’ and everyone was like ‘Oh, my God, I’m hearing Rob Base at a political event.’'”