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Sound of music returns to von Trapp Salzburg villa (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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.

Arts notes: Classical music (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

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 …

Lower Tyrone’s Tuesday music night is an ‘informal jam session’ (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

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.

0 Comments : 07.27.08

High School Musical 2 - I Don’t Dance

I Don’t Dance Backing Track:
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The official I Don’t Dance music video from High School Musical 2
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0 Comments : 07.25.08

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Universals Imeem Deal May Unlock More Free Music (New York Times)

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.

Norwegian music fests go climate-friendly (UPI)

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.

Warner Music Stock Outperforms Peers (New York Times)

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.

MySpace Music to launch in September (CNET)

Chris DeWolfe announces launch date of the service, which is backed by three of the four top music labels, during Fortune Brainstorm conference.

Royal Oak Music Theatre celebrates 80th anniversary with old-time comedy (Detroit News)

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.

Music is all in the family for Matt Pryor, who has two albums coming out (The Kansas City Star)

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.

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble premieres (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Even by world premiere standards, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble’s final concerts will be a special case.

CLASSICAL MUSIC Ohio L… (Akron Beacon Journal)

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 …

CSU Schowb School of Music holds annual piano sale (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)

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.

POPULAR MUSIC Family Ev… (Akron Beacon Journal)

POPULAR MUSIC Family Event: Dave Henterly in Concert 2 p.m. today, Akron-Summit County Public Library, Northwest Akron branch, 1720 Shatto Ave.

0 Comments : 07.24.08

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Rap music figure convicted in Las Vegas slaying (AP via Yahoo! News)

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.

Music Will Ignite World Premiere of Beaty’s ‘Resurrection’ at Arena; Cast Announced (Playbill via Yahoo! News)

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.

New iPhone music to users’ ears (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

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.

Billboard charts online music hits (CNN Money)

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.

Does Loud Bar Music Make You Drink More? (CBS News)

A French study of bar patrons shows people drink more alcohol when the music is loud.

Mobile Music Revenues Will Get A Needed Boost From Ads By 2013: Report (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)

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.

Pitchfork review: Music at a high pitch (Los Angeles Times)

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.

Jessica Simpson booed at country music fest; Amy Winehouse’s husband gets jail sentence; Britney Spears steps out (San Francisco Chronicle)

Jessica Simpson booed at country music fest; Amy Winehouse’s husband gets jail sentence; Britney Spears steps out

A look back at the music of the first half of 2008 (Houston Chronicle)

We’ve graduated to the second half of 2008, which has made me reflect on the music that has kept me occupied this year.

0 Comments : 07.22.08

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Music retailer thrives serving captive audience (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

As music retailers struggle to stay in business, a Los Angeles firm is doing nicely targeting a demographic that gets bigger every year — prisoners.

New music festival shines on opening day (Denver Post)

It was a fine debut for the Mile High Music Festival, which opened today on the outer grounds of Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City.

Kid Rock returns in style Saturday night at DTE Energy Music Theatre (Detroit Free Press)

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.

Horse racing roundup: Music Note romps (The Record)

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.

Time Frames: Bush & Gerts Piano Co. sheet music (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

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 …

‘Music Saves Lives’ with blood drive (The Star-Ledger)

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.

Bio gives music to a singer’s life (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

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

Music Note romps in Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

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.

Washed-out music festival returns (BBC News)

A nationally-renowned music festival which was washed out in last year’s floods gets under way.

0 Comments : 07.20.08

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Scottish music festival blighted by death, stabbing (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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.

Sexsmith’s music is respected, but he’s still a struggling artist (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

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.

Classical Music (The New Yorker)

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…

Music festival Evolve-ing (The News)

The News ANTIGONISH The countdown is on for the ninth annual Evolve Music and Awareness Festival, just outside Antigonish.

Summer music course concludes with recitals (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

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.

Deaths, Stabbings and Rape at Music Festivals (antiMUSIC)

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.

CSS headline free music festival (BBC News)

Brazilian electro funk band CSS headline the Rise festival, billed as London’s biggest free music festival.

SerbFest offers weekend of food, music (The Times of Northwest Indiana)

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 Music Man opens Thursday (Galveston County Daily News)

FRIENDSWOOD United Players of Friendswood United Methodist Church will present their summer musical, Meredith Willsons The Music Man.

0 Comments : 07.14.08

The flat song is more often always often due to the bad split of the room, of the trouble

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.

0 Comments : 07.13.08

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Top 10 Hottest Digital Music Websites (Wired News)

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!

Music lovers attend 17th festival (BBC News)

Thousands of music lovers gather at an independent music festival’s 17th annual event near Guildford.

Music House plans to restore musicians rights (Islamic Republic News Agency)

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.

Arts emphasized in this year’s Lakeside Music and Arts Festival (Herald & Review)

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.

Omaha hopes to get on music map with Mid American festival (Daily Nebraskan)

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.

Weather, music bring many out to the Iowa City Jazz Festival (The Gazette)

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 …

If Music Be the Food of Fortune (New York Times)

Plans to start an annual three-day Woodstock-esque music festival for 75,000 in upstate New York get mixed reactions from residents.

"Mainely Music" To Be Held July 10-12 (Boothbay Register)

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.

Bill Smiths Music Men (West Side Leader)

Variety music performed in an outdoor lunchtime venue. July 9, 11:45-1:15 p.m.; free Cascade Plaza (330) 375-2311

Music Happening - Anoushka Shankar: Wowing Down Under (HindiSong.com)

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.

0 Comments : 07.7.08

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PHOTO CALL: The Sound of Music at Sacramento Music Circus (Playbill)

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.

Channel surfing: Calling music fans, A to ZZ (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

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 …

Music lovers get in the groove at 80/35 fest (The Des Moines Register)

The first day of Des Moines first attempt to hold a two-day music festival went on without any major issues Friday evening.

Zoo music festival ready to begin (BBC News)

A three-day music festival at a zoo in Kent is ready to begin, with 20,000 fans expected to attend.

Lively second day at the Rothbury Music Festival (Detroit Free Press)

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.

‘London is crawling with new music’ (Guardian Unlimited)

Arts & entertainment: The composer Thomas Ads talks to Nicholas Wroe about his extraordinary life in music

Arts emphasized in this year’s Lakeside Music and Arts Festival (Herald & Review)

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 business up for sale (The New Zealand Herald)

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.

‘Midsummer Night’s Sing’ features performances of choral music (The Florida Times-Union)

Jacksonville Masterworks Chorale presents its second annual Midsummer Night’s Sing for lovers of choral music.

Celtic music workshop has wide appeal (The News)

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.

0 Comments : 07.5.08

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Nokia signs Warner Music to Comes With Music service (CNET via Yahoo! News)

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

Verizon, Rhapsody Team up on Mobile Music (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Rhapsody America on Monday began selling songs from all major labels in the MP3 format and launched its mobile music service…

Music - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog (New York Times)

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.

Major labels benefit from non-music sales: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

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.

0 Comments : 07.1.08