Category: music

“Dematerializing recorded music has consequences. On the positive side it hugely multiplies the potential audience, letting the music travel fast and far to listeners who would never have known it existed.”

“The very notion of jazz stardom is problematic, because it’s based more on artistic merit and creative influence than actual ticket sales. Real legends or trailblazers in the jazz scene, and 700 or 800 tickets is a really good show for them.”

“The troubled New York City Opera let some details about its next season dribble out on Tuesday during a meeting with its unions, which confronted the company’s leader, George Steel, with symbolic votes of no confidence in his leadership.”

“I think there is a silent caucus of music lovers who agree that concerts, besides being something of a pain, often clash with their reasons for listening to music.”

“The violin was made in 1721 and is known as the Lady Blunt after Lord Byron’s granddaughter Lady Anne Blunt who owned it for 30 years. It was sold by a music foundation in Japan for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in March.”

“EMI, the music company that was seized by Citigroup in February after a disastrous four-year ownership by the private equity firm Terra Firma, is going up for sale again.”

Valentina Nafornita, a 24-year-old soprano from Moldova who also received the Audience Award. Ukrainian baritone Andrei Bondarenko won the Song Prize, considered the runner-up award.

From the originals (Monterey; Hendrix and Joplin) through hippies 2.0 (Lollapalooza; The Grateful Dead and Phish) to hippies 3G (Bonnaroo; Sound Tribe Sector 9 and, still, Phish), “what’s amazing … isn’t how much they’ve changed. It’s how much they haven’t, especially as society has changed around them.”

The Master of the Queen’s Music “said he planned to write to phone companies about the practicalities of introducing a financial penalty on ‘artistic terrorists’. He was speaking after performances at this year’s St Magnus Festival in Orkney were ‘plagued’ by ringtones.”

“Even as the jazz and classical music industries face their own troubles with record sales and concert attendance, the stations that distribute the music are poised for a renaissance, fueled by live-streamed performances, HD broadcasting, social media and mobile applications.”