Category: music

During one of the many sex scenes in the wildly popular e-novel, our heroine uses as background music Thomas Tallis’s ecstatic motet for 40 voices, Spem in alium – and now The Tallis Scholars’ recording of the piece has gone zooming up the iTunes classical charts.

“Young composers today are increasingly finding — or creating — outlets for their music in rock and jazz clubs, coffeehouses, and other alternative venues. That’s bringing their music to listeners who otherwise might never have encountered it. It’s also expanding the range of classical (or contemporary or “postclassical”) music being created today.”

“It’s the latest in a series of studies that point to music therapy as an effective tool in dealing with dementia. The Italian Psychogeriatric Association just reviewed 32 papers published over the past decade, and found a pattern of significant reductions in such symptoms as depression, delusions, and hallucinations.”

The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games “would not dream of asking welders or parking attendants or caterers to work for free or for a token fee ‘because it’s such great exposure’. But LOCOG is not alone in thinking of musicians as different from other professionals. We all do. We all know that musicians love what they do, and if they weren’t paid, they’d go on playing anyway.”

The Estonian-American maestro adds the podium of Japan’s most prestigious orchestra to his music directorships of the Orchestre de Paris, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. (He stepped down last year as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony.)

“While the Delaware Symphony Orchestra continues to weigh its financial future, DuPont Co. has kicked in money to revive the DSO’s chamber series at the Hotel du Pont and Music Director David Amado is proposing a scaled-down season that cuts the programming budget by more than half. Last month, the symphony announced the suspension of its 2012-2013 season because it had exhausted its operational funds.”

“A great screen was set up on the very beach itself, and the opera performed, as seen by the black-tied audience in the award-winning glass-and-steel theatre at Wormsley, to thousands sitting on the sand, while donkeys took their children for rides, and the adults vainly tried to keep the beach out of their sandwiches.”

“The instruments often are no-going-back kind of propositions: Make a good one, and you’ll never buy a guitar from the rack again. Denver tech worker Tracy Leveque, 46, has built several guitars, but he said the the last, which he built under Dick’s instruction, was especially fabulous. Still, he sometimes visits guitar shops, and goes straight to the lock-and-key rooms where guitars begin at $5,000, and gives them a whirl. ‘And nothing compares,’ he said. ‘I never found something I would buy.'”

Avid PR contact Ian Bruce, responding to a direct request for comment, stated, “Specifically on Sibelius, this was not part of the sales we announced this week. Sibelius stays with Avid, and is an important brand and product for us going forward.”