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I just caught this on a feed that I regularly watch. It’s an open letter from the lead singer of the band OK Go to the band’s fans explaining why they cannot embed the band’s YouTube videos on their blogs or websites. It shows how slow the industry (major record labels) is to respond to [...]
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Good for them! The Vancouver Symphony has pulled out of plans to record music for the 2010 Winter Olympics for other musicians to “play sync” to outdoors.
VSO conductor Bramwell Tovey was asked to conduct the recording session, but was told another conductor would perform his actions at the ceremonies.
“My participation at the opening ceremonies was [...]
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Violinist Jennifer Koh (last heard with the Oregon Symphony in performances of the Brahms Violin Concerto, and before that the Szymanowski 1st Violin Concerto) has a new solo recording out on Cedille Records, entitled Rhapsodic Musings. It features works by Elliot Carter, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Augusta Read Thomas, and John Zorn for solo violin. Based upon [...]
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I’ve been living with the new Kim Kashkashian recording entitled Neharót for some time now, and find its title track Neharót Neharót (by the Israeli composer Betty Olivero, b.1954) to be one of the most affecting new pieces of music that I’ve encountered in the past decade. I liken its first impact on me to [...]
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There have been a couple of recent classical music groups that have appeared recently in Portland that have garnered some well-earned recognition or have dropped new albums that are receiving acclaim in the world-wide press.
The first of these is the Ebène Quartet, a young French ensemble that gave a spectacular concert as part of the [...]
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I’m hoping that on Wednesday this weekend I’ll have a full review up for a wonderful, gorgeous CD of new music for viola. The disc is published by ECM New Series, and is entitled Neharót, and it features that miraculous violist Kim Kashkashian playing music of Betty Olivero, Tigran Mansurian, and Eitan Steinberg. What I’ve [...]
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The senza conductor chamber orchestra A Far Cry, based out of Boston, has released their first recording, entitled A Far Cry: Debut.
You can preview tracks and purchase downloads (320kbs mp3 files) from their page at InstantEncore.com.
Here’s the program of the album:
Osvaldo Golijov – Last Round for string orchestra
G.F. Handel – Concerto Grosso, op. 6 no. [...]
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After a bit of blow back from my response to David Stabler’s blog post about some restrictions on use of audio/video clips of union musicians for a feature article of Tomas Svoboda’s world premiere this week, I decided to follow some well-intended advice from one of my colleagues and get my facts straight. So, as [...]
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Two Several news items from this week:
Cincinnati Symphony & Pops Put Recordings On Hold
Telarc Label to Suspend Producing Recordings
Classical Music Thrives in Virtual ‘Second Life’
Musicians: Radio Stations Should Pay Us Royalties
Free Streaming Audio: Fighting Piracy?
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Bill Stensrud, who writes the blog “Business of Classical Music”, has written a very cogent and convincing argument for the abandonment of the way that classical music has been recorded and marketed since the beginning of the recording age.
I would highly recommend it to any and all of my musician colleagues who still regard recording [...]
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Third Angle may soon need a Fourth Angle to supplement all of their recent activities, especially in the recording studio – read all about it here.
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Caught this article on Yahoo about the recent (and very small) expansion in the recording activities of some US orchestras.
Here’s the first couple paragraphs:
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Not long ago, American orchestras considered the notion of creating new recordings an almost impossible dream.
Among the hurdles: longstanding union regulations that made the process untenably expensive in [...]
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Sad, but true:
Douglas Fisher
Member, Columbus Symphony Orchestra
President, Local 103, AFM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 26, 2008
Columbus Symphony Musicians Vote To Allow Live
Recording
Next week’s Columbus Symphony Orchestra program will be recorded live for the international recording company Denon, which will release it on compact disc. At the personal request of Music Director Junichi Hirokami, the Musicians voted [...]
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