“In its 89-year history, fewer than 4,250 students have attended the school. So what on earth is this new Curtis course with an enrollment of 25,000 and growing?”
Category: music
Where The Money You Pay For A CD Goes
“Of 100 million albums sold in the UK last year, 70% were CDs. Where the money goes – an average of £8 per CD – depends on the deals signed by bands and record labels.”
Global Warming Data Expressed As A Song
“University of Minnesota undergraduate Daniel Crawford converted more than a century of global temperature data to create A Song of Our Warming Planet.”
Beloved In Houston, Booed In Europe
“Heroes fall — all the time — in the eyes of those who fail to remember that heroes are people, imperfect in all their glory. Or maybe European critics are a bunch of douches.”
Linda Ronstadt Has Parkinson’s And Can No Longer Sing
“Ms. Ronstadt, 67, received her official diagnosis eight months ago, although she had symptoms for the past eight years.”
Losing A Trio Of Jazz Greats – Some Of The Era’s Brightest Lights
Marian McPartland, Cedar Walton, Albert Murray: Among them, they spread jazz into nearly every part of American culture.
Opera Gets A Creative Infusion Of Rock
“Opera, indeed, has a lot to gain if some of the best musicians in other fields bring their creative focuses to bear on it — not because they represent new audiences or potential commercial windfalls, but because some of them bring interesting perspectives.”
Music Videos Sell Music – And YouTube Is Where It Happens
“These days the Internet is the medium for music videos, and legions of music fans surfing the Net determine if a video becomes popular: YouTube, not MTV, is the platform. It has supplanted radio as the main way American teenagers listen to new music, a survey by Nielsen shows.”
Music Schools Work On The Business Of Music
“Gradually, conservatories and university music schools across the U.S. have come around to the notion that for young musicians today, the standard training — a grounding in technique, repertory and interpretation, along with music theory and history — is only part of the toolbox. Most now take the view that for musicians who hope to make careers in an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing performance world, an understanding of how that world works is crucial.”
Minnesota Governor Speaks Publicly For First Time About Orchestra Lockout
Mark Dayton: “I’m hoping, and this is just my own assumption, that they both want to get it solved, and they have until basically Labor Day to do so. When you have this kind of dispute, both sides have to want to resolve it. No mediator can force a resolution.”