Music’s Social-Media Economy
February 20, 2010
An Australian band member explains it all for you.
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Michael Kaiser is Sorry
February 18, 2010
The Art of Improvisation Lives
February 16, 2010
And so does a sense of fun.
I have often heard Olivier Latry improvise and have heard two of the others as well. But I’ve never heard them all together until this remarkable event:
Tip of the hat to Stephen Best
UPDATE: And now comes a newly-posted video of an organist improvising in a Greenwich Village club, and on the piano:
The Musicology of the Future
February 16, 2010
How will the Beatles be studied a thousand years from now?
Offenbach: The Center of Human History?
February 14, 2010
A Sliver of the Pie
February 11, 2010
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals a dandy area for growth in support of the arts in cash-strapped times. As the chart above communicates, sport, hobby, cultural, and arts organizations combined receive only 3.4% of the really quite massive volunteer effort in the United States.
Remixes as Social Media
February 10, 2010
Matt Sanchez gives a primer on remix culture, using a TED Talk and video clips of young people who are both relating to their friends and alluding to pre-existing works via mashup. Many older-than-younger people will find this to be eight minutes well spent:
A community can use Mozart for a social-media experience, too:
It’s not quite Zaide, but …
Tomorrow, February 9
February 8, 2010
for a new venture in the promotion of an opera season.
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