Salzburg is alive with the sound of music once again, as the von Trapp family’s villa opened its doors to the public this weekend for the first time, as a hotel and museum.
Classical music Douglas W. Adams has been named president of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, replacing Fred Bronstein. Adams, who has been president and CEO of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra for the past six years and once served as general manager of the Dallas group, returns to town to begin his duties on Sept. 8. Theater Last week in Arts Notes we mentioned the Broadway-bound …
The Brownfield Community Center in Lower Tyrone has held its Tuesday music nights for 14 years, inviting anyone who wants to play to join in with the casual setting.
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Universal Music Groups announcement on Monday that it would license its catalog to Imeem , a rapidly growing social networking site, may well be a key milestone in the development of digital music.
GENEVA, Switzerland, July 23 (UPI) — Two music festivals in Norway linked with the United Nations to become a climate-friendly music venues, the U.N. Environmental Program says.
Heres some good news for Warner Music Group s long-suffering private equity backers: According to The New York Post, the music label, whose artists include R.E.M. and Green Day, is the years best-performing media stock.
When the Royal Oak Music Theatre first opened its doors in 1928, the Daily Tribune called it the “largest and finest of the Detroit suburban theaters.” Admission was 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children.
As his family has grown, Matt Pryors music world has adapted accordingly: He tours less, he writes and records at home, and when he hits the road, he often takes one of his three children with him.
CLASSICAL MUSIC Ohio Light Opera College of Wooster’s Freedlander Theatre, 329 E. University. St. Sigmund Romberg’s The Desert Song, 2 p.m. today and Saturday and Aug. 9; 8 p.m. Wednesday. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, 8 tonight and July 31; 2 p.m. Wednesday and Aug. 5. Also, Franz Lehar’s The Czarevitch, 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3 and 8. St. Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’Etoile, 8 p.m. Saturday and …
This year, Steinway Piano Galleries of Atlanta is coordinating a public sale of Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music pianos. The sale will be 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 17 in the Saunders Center for Music Studies inside the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, 900 Broadway.
A jury found a 37-year-old San Francisco rap music figure guilty in the slaying of a Kansas City rival in what authorities called a West Coast versus Midwest rap war.
Casting has been announced for the Arena Stage’s production of Daniel Beaty’s Resurrection, a music, dance and poetry-filled new work introducing us to a handful of varied African-American men.
When it was unveiled in June, Apple’s new iPhone didn’t appear to offer anything new for music fans. But thanks to the subsequent launch of the App Store on iTunes, iPhone users can download a host of applications to add new functions to the device. Many of them are music-oriented and all are made specifically for the iPhone.
Jeff Price likes to say he can get anybody’s album on iTunes for “the price of a six pack and a pizza.” Now the founder of TuneCore, a Brooklyn-based digital music distributor, is offering his customers something more: the chance to be on the Billboard chart with a bullet.
Well, the good news for record companies is that they will be able to make some money from mobile music; unfortunately, says eMarketer, they won’t see as much as they’ve been hoping for. eMarketer forecasts worldwide mobile music retail revenues will grow from $2.4 billion in 2007 to over $13 billion by 2012but full-track download sales will not even comprise half of that in five years.
Some newcomers made a splash, so did the weather at 3-day festival Here’s something you don’t experience too often at a big outdoor music festival: silence.
It was a welcomed return to metro Detroit Saturday night for Kid Rock and his Rock and Roll Revival — in the first of four shows at DTE Energy Music Theatre.
NEW YORK - Music Note turned in a dazzling performance, beating entrymate Little Belle by 11 lengths Saturday in the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park.
Train to Dear Old Dallas This 1914 sheet music, I Am Going to Take a Train for Dear Old Dallas Town , is a sprightly paean to Arlingtons eastern neighbor. The publisher, Bush & Gerts Piano Co., was a large piano maker based in Chicago that issued music to sell with its pianos. Bush & Gerts Dallas store was on Elm Street, near its modern-day intersection with Field Street, between the …
EAST BRUNSWICK: “Music Saves Lives” and Vans Warped Tour is teaming up with New Jersey Blood Services for a blood drive at the Brunswick Square Mall from 2:30 to 8 p.m. tomorrow by the J.C. Penney Court.
It took me 23 years to cry for Steve Goodman. It happened when I was reading Page 637 of Clay Eals’ biography, “Steve Goodman: Facing the Music.” Q&A with Goodman biographer Clay Eals
NEW YORK - Music Note turned in a dazzling performance, beating entrymate Little Belle by 11 lengths Saturday in the US$300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks for three-year-old fillies at Belmont Park.
Scotland’s biggest music festival ended on a low note Sunday after one man died and another was stabbed in unrelated incidents on the airfield where 80,000 revellers were gathered.
NEW YORK - Every so often, Ron Sexsmith runs into the music executive who curated Bob Marley’s Legend disc - the prototype for a phenomenally successful career retrospective - and the man asks if it’s time to give the Canadian singer-songwriter the same treatment.
CONCERTS IN TOWN (LE) POISSON ROUGE This new club (see Night Life) is devoted to creatively presenting music of all kinds to a stylish young audience; Ronen Givonys genre-defying Wordless Music series, whose concert venues used to be sprinkled throughout the city, will take up residence here. July 16…
VALPARAISO | Youngsters enrolled in Valparaiso University’s summer chamber music course will show what they’ve learned in a series of public performances on Saturday.
While Rocklahoma suffered collapsed stages at the hands of mother nature (see separate report in today’s Day in Rock), across the pond several music festivals were hit by violence and even some deaths.
MERRILLVILLE | Family dining, tamburitzan music and ethnic food and pastries are on the agenda for SerbFest 2008, scheduled for Friday through Sunday at St. Elijah Serbian Orthodox Cathedral.
The flat song is more often always often due to the bad split of the room, of the trouble. A good mode is in this case to raise launching a semitone; it is often right like easy singing, and produces a direction of cheerfulness invariably.
Change is the only constant in the music business, and that goes double for the digital music business. So, for the moment at least, we’ve assembled a list of the 10 hottest digital music websites … in the world!
Iran - Musicians High Council and Board of Directors of Music House planned to restore rights of musicians. In a meeting presided by noted Iranian vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the Council unveiled plans to vindicate rights of musicians, IRNA cultural news service said.
DECATUR - Organizers of the Lakeside Music and Arts Festival called in reinforcements to expand the arts portion of this year’s festival. The results of that call include a juried arts show and arts education where festival-goers can see how various forms of art are created.
Come Sept. 3, Omaha will be rocking and riffing like it never quite has before as the Mid-American Music Festival kicks off its inaugural year. More than 190 bands from across the United States will converge on Omaha for a five-day music festival that celebrates the independent music written and performed by American rock, jazz, blues and country musicians.
Warm weather, good bands and post-flood relaxation all contributed to above-average attendance at this year’s Iowa City Jazz Festival, said Mary Frieden, executive director of Summer of the Arts.”In the past we’ve had the whole weekend in all add up to 30,000 to 35,000″ people, she said. That mark was reached by Saturday, and Frieden, whose organization runs the downtown Iowa City music …
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche once said that, “Without music life would be a mistake.” Divas World Production, Inc. (Houston, Texas) could not agree more, and is producing a series of three concerts July 10-12 which will attest to the bounty music offers our everyday lives.
During Australia tour, she performed several traditional Indian classical ragas and acoustic versions of her compositions from her Grammy nominated album Rise and her latest release Breathing Under Water. The Sydney Opera House Concert hall was packed with Indian music fans and Australian fans with an appreciation of Indian classical and fusion music.
Staged “in the round” by California Musical Theatre artistic director Scott Eckern, the production stars Music Circus newcomer Cristin Mortenson ( Phantom of the Opera tour, By Jeeves on Broadway) as Maria and George Dvorsky ( The Scarlet Pimpernel, Passion ) as Captain von Trapp.
VH1 Classic in Concert: ZZ Top Live From Texas: VH1 Classic continues its “Rock Across America” weekend with this concert featuring rock musics favorite bearded guys, filmed at Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie. 3 p.m., VH1 Classic (Charter Channel 234, Time Warner 284, DirecTV 337, Dish 163, FIOS 188, U-Verse 520) As the Bell Rings: The rapid-fire short sitcom bits featuring Fort Worths …
UPDATED 9:10 P.M. — GRANT TOWNSHIP — The sounds rolled on at Rothbury as the inaugural music fest headed into the sunset hour with plenty of music left on tap. Early wanderers got a jolt of old-school soul steam.
DECATUR - Organizers of the Lakeside Music and Arts Festival called in reinforcements to expand the arts portion of this year’s festival. The results of that call include a juried arts show and arts education where festival-goers can see how various forms of art are created.
Legendary music store Real Groovy and its entire collection of associated businesses are up for sale. Managing director Chris Hart told the Weekend Herald yesterday a bad foreign exchange deal had left the 28-year-old business in need of capital.
SUTHERLANDS RIVER The hallways of East Pictou Middle School were filled with the sound of Celtic music during the fifth annual Scottish and Old-time Mixed Fiddle Workshop.
Warner Music Group, the third largest music label, will license it’s music catalog to Nokia’s Comes With Music Service, a Warner Music spokeswoman confirmed Monday
Cellphones, Cameras, Computers and more. When Rob Williams, the senior vice president for music at Real Networks, came by last week to talk about a bunch of announcements by Rhapsody, the music service jointly owned by Real and Viacom, I have to confess that I felt a bit sorry for him.
British record companies saw revenues from non-music sales rise sharply in 2007, partly compensating for declining recorded music sales, a report said on Monday.