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S.F. Opera patron donates $35 million
At a time when the San Francisco Opera is looking to shore up its finances, the company has received $35 million from longtime patron and supporter Jeannik Méquet Littlefield, a donation believed to be the largest to an American opera company from a single benefactor. (04/10) ReadYou may also like
The next big Ting?
Boston.com | 16/06/08 
The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ... More
Music City can turn a citified girl into a country-hummin' gal
Kansascity.com | 18/05/08
The last time I listened to country music was the summer after my senior year of high school when I worked in a sweatshop in Tyrone, Pa., sewing seams ... More
A Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song Ever
Wired News | 18/04/08 
Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid took an online poll in the '90s to find out which musical elements people found the most irritating. ... Read
Behind the music: The No 1 template
The Guardian | 15/04/08
This week's No 1 single is, yet again, Estelle's American Boy. It's one of those infectious tunes that seemed destined to be the soundtrack of the summer ... Read
Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller than MP3
Newswise | 03/04/08
Researchers at the University of Rochester have digitally reproduced music in a file nearly 1,000 times smaller than a regular MP3 file.
The music, ... Read
Disney site music to parents' ears?
The Indianapolis Star | 22/05/07
Looking to profit directly from the growing market for music downloads, Disney has launched an online store for kid-focused singles, albums and music videos. ... Read
Habbo, Music and the Record Labels
Digital Media Wire | 07/11/07
It is not just file-sharing kids and single moms that the record labels have to worry about if they continue their head-in-the-sand approach to the digital ... Read
Pop Band Fratellis Launch Memory Stick Chart Bid
Digital-Lifestyles | 20/03/07
With a keen eye for drumming up a handy bit of pre-release publicity, Scottish band The Fratellis will be releasing their new single tomorrow on a USB ... Read
'Dont download this song', now the website
Dontdownloadthissong.com | 25/08/06
"Weird Al" Yankovic is soon to release a new album titled "Straight Outta Lynwood" and the first single is titled "Don't Download This Song." In ... Read
How Shakira's 'Hips' shook the music industry
Los Angeles Times | 06/04/07
Call it the "Hips Don't Lie" effect. Last year, Epic Records held a contest offering fans a chance to help create a video for Colombian pop diva Shakira's ... Read
Wrong Arcade Fire Song Offered on iTunes
Spin | 29/12/06
The Arcade Fire's touted new single, "Intervention," was supposed to be made available on iTunes tomorrow (Dec. 28), but due to a flub up at the band's ... Read
Toshiba preps 16GB flash for music players, phones
Electronista | 20/04/07
Toshiba this morning crystallized details of new, 16GB flash memory that could dramatically alter the nature of storage. A shrink to 56-nanometer lets ... Read
Mika Scores Unprecedented String of UK #1s
Businesswire | 13/02/07
Casablanca/Universal Republic recording artist, Mika, is making history in the UK only weeks before his acclaimed new album Life In Cartoon Motion debuts ... Read
The Single Returns To Haunt Music Biz
Showbuzz | 11/05/07
That's the nightmare currently facing the music industry. Almost a decade after virtually eliminating 45s and cassette singles, thereby forcing fans to ... Read
Downloads Double UK Singles Sales
Billboard | 02/01/07
Escalating music download sales have helped double the size of the U.K. singles market over the past three years, according to figures published by The ... Read
Band Wants Paris Hilton To 'Go Away'
CMJ | 04/05/07
Citizens For A Better America, a band that was created for the sole purpose to ridicule Paris Hilton, has hit it big with their first single "Go Away ... Read
Vivaldi's long-lost opera returns to Prague after 278 years
The Independent | 04/05/08
A long-lost opera by Antonio Vivaldi was to have its first performance in centuries last night. Argippo, discovered by a Czech musician as he rummaged ... More
Virtuoso cellist Rostropovich hospitalized again
RIA Novosti | 24/04/07
World-famous cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, who has been recuperating in a sanatorium outside Moscow, has been hospitalized again, a source ... Read
In the operatic arena were those boos justified?
International Herald Tribune | 19/12/06
Two recent incidents of booing are the talk of the opera world, a hothouse of passionate debate if ever there was one. First, boos rained down on Placido ... Read
Prison inmates perform in musical
BBC | 02/03/07
Wandsworth Prison inmates have spent weeks rehearsing for the nine-date show, developing confidence and new skills in the process. The musical is being ... Read
A new symphony is music to gamers' ears
The Sydney Morning Herald | 26/12/06
A "symphony" comprising music from some of the most popular video games will be performed in Sydney next year after sell-out shows in the US and Europe. ... Read
The Who release first album for a generation
Soundgenerator | 25/08/06
The Who's first studio album in over 25 years will also be released alongside a compilation of Pete Townsend's rock opera, 'The Boy Who Heard Music'. ... Read
Swedish-American Soprano Varnay Dies
The Washington Post | 05/09/06
Astrid Varnay, the Swedish-American soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut _ without rehearsal _ in a nationally broadcast performance and went ... Read
Classical fans figure to applaud new standard for digital music database
The Sydney Morning Herald | 09/01/07
Opera lovers and classical music aficionados have long lamented the particular difficulties they face in organizing their music in digital programs and ... Read
World premiere by Philip Glass, 'Appomattox,' set for Opera season
San Franciso Chronicle | 23/01/07
David Gockley unveiled a different sound and look for the San Francisco Opera on Monday, announcing a season -- the first he's planned as general director ... Read
Robert Wilson's ‘Persephone': Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny
The New York Times | 15/08/06
The theater director Robert Wilson has been faithful to his artistic obsessions for more than four decades. Starkly arresting visual tableaus, dramatically ... Read
The Far Side of the Moon
The Sydney Morning Herald | 17/04/07
Early last year Robert Lepage visited Australia to perform his one-man show, The Andersen Project, as part of the Sydney Festival. In it the writer-director-performer ... Read
Cecilia Bartoli shines in a new staging of
International Herald Tribune | 23/01/07
The prospect of witnessing Cecilia Bartoli in an important a new role was probably the greatest draw, but the Zurich Opera House's new production of Handel's ... Read
'Justin Timberlake is too young for me'
The Telegraph | 03/11/06
Anna Netrebko, as you might expect from one of the hottest divas in the world, is hopelessly late. I spend the time chatting to the doorman at the opera ... Read
Just Like Yesterday, Only Better
The Washington Post | 14/11/06
Technology to the rescue. Given the spectacular cost of making new recordings of familiar operas, we are likely to continue to listen to the great singers ... Read
It's never too early to wear your poppy
Telegraph | 27/10/06
Katherine Jenkins, the 26-year-old opera singer, wore a dress made of 2,500 poppies to help launch the appeal. The Welsh soprano said it was becoming more ... Read