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The Sydney Morning Herald
Classical fans figure to applaud new standard for digital music database
Opera lovers and classical music aficionados have long lamented the particular difficulties they face in organizing their music in digital programs and portable players. Now a new standard announced Monday could give them something to applaud. (09/01) ReadYou may also like
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks
Timesonline | 16/06/08 
Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ... More
Labels eye variable pricing for digital sales
Reuters | 07/06/08
Arguably the No. 1 item on record labels' to-do list for the year is, "Establish variable pricing for digital downloads."
As luck would have it, ... More
The music biz's digital flops - a short history
The Register | 26/05/08
Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ... More
New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music
The Korea Times | 23/05/08
If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ... More
DRM claims more victims as Microsoft fails its music users
The Guardian | 23/04/08 
DRM (Digital Rights Management) added to music is a really bad idea and you should never buy DRM-protected files, unless you have more money than sense ... Read
“American Idol” Contestant David Cook Tops Amazon MP3 Chart, Then Vanishes
Rolling Stone | 23/04/08
After enjoying last week as the top-selling album at the Amazon MP3 store, American Idol contestant David Cook's 2006 album Analog Heart was pulled from ... Read
MP3sparks.com downed by links to Russian cybercrime gang
The Register | 11/01/08
The popular Russian digital music retailer MP3sparks.com has scored a own goal by doing business with a web host that has been linked to an infamous cybercrime ... Read
Digital Music Industry Challenged to Follow Fans' Lead
PC World | 10/01/08
At the Consumer Electronics Show this year it's clear that consumers are making choices that are driving industry changes, and nowhere is that more evident ... Read
DiMA, Publishers Clash Over Rights
Billboard | 08/01/08
A major battle is erupting between some digital media companies and major music publishers, which may lead to federal litigation, Billboard.biz has learned. ... Read
Mainstream music industry realizes the value of 'free'
International Herald Tribune | 27/01/08
The mainstream music industry is coming to recognize a price for digital songs that might be good enough to compete with the underground exchange of tunes ... Read
Warner Music profits slump 58%
Timesonline | 29/11/07
Warner Music Group today unveiled a 58 per cent slump in fourth-quarter profits, with increased digital revenues failing to offset a collapse in sales ... Read
Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM
Business Week | 04/01/08
In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection ... Read
7Digital Gets Agressive With Pricing & Features.
Hypebot | 06/12/07
UK digital retailer 7Digital is pushing aggressive pricing as well as new features and alliances designed to challenge iTunes and other retailers. The ... Read
The DRM maze for consumers
BBC | 11/12/07
The last few years in the history of digital content are littered with examples of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions that have been accused of ... Read
USI and Foxconn reportedly to make Wi-Fi iPod
Digitimes | 24/04/07
Apple plans to launch new iPods featuring Wi-Fi in the second half of 2007. Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will produce the Wi-Fi modules and Foxconn ... Read
Music Vets Prep Next-Gen Player
Wired | 13/02/07
Three digital music veterans have launched a stealth startup and are close to unveiling both a new portable media player and what they're calling an "internet ... Read
So Much Music, So Few Choices
The New York Times | 17/11/06
THIS week Microsoft introduced Zune, its answer to Apple Computer's mighty pairing of the iPod portable media player and the iTunes music and video store. ... Read
The secret of the Zune
PilotOnline.com | 10/11/06
Coming Zune. Welcome to the social. Music the way it wants to be. That's all mysterious advertisements have revealed about the Zune portable media player, ... Read
Microsoft's Zune deal with Universal Music Group to benefit artists?
Zdnet | 10/11/06
This morning, Microsoft and Universal Music Group jointly announced that the two would be making songs from UMG's artists that are specially formatted ... Read
Music program is changing lives of Venezuelan kids
deseretnews.com | 30/06/08
A violin case slung over her shoulder, 10-year-old Daniela Fagundez trudges home along a row of muddy yards where chickens scratch among banana trees and ... More
Chaser of Beer, Rock or Bebop With Your Bach?
The New York Times | 16/06/08
YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating ... More
Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain
Ars Technica | 22/05/08
Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ... More
Protein Sequences Converted Into Classical Music By UCLA Molecular Biologists
Medical News | 22/05/07
UCLA molecular biologists have turned protein sequences into original compositions of classical music. "We converted the sequence of proteins into music ... Read
Deutsche Grammophon Launches Classical Download Site
Billboard | 27/11/07
Classical music giant Deutsche Grammophon will make the bulk of its catalog available online from tomorrow when it relaunches its Website and presses the ... Read
Tacoma tries classical music to chase gangs from bus stops
Seattle Post Intelligencer | 30/07/07
Believing gangs and Mozart don't mix, city police and Pierce Transit officials are mounting a classical attack on a growing problem of street gangs at ... Read
The clapped-out legacy of Karajan that impoverished classical music
The Independent | 06/04/08
Waking up in the morning to Herbert von Karajan on the radio, I have to rub my eyes and check the calendar to make sure that Mao Tse-tung is not alive ... Read
Dear Virtuoso, I Wrote This One Just for You
The New York Times | 01/05/07
PEOPLE who pay the least attention to classical music probably know Mozart's clarinet concerto and quintet, two indelibly beautiful works. But how many ... Read
An unequal music
The Hindu | 06/11/07
As I write this article, I feel that I am writing about something that we prefer not talking about. Should I write this or not? Do we in the musical fraternity ... Read
The shocking truth about sex and violas
Telegraph | 02/03/07
Are we our own worst enemies? Is the world of classical music too stuffy by half? Certainly Muso magazine seems to think so. According to its website, ... Read
Biologists make music from human protein
Imedinews | 04/05/07
U.S. biologists have found a way to present human protein sequences as classical music in an attempt to help vision-impaired scientists. Rie Takahashi ... Read
Turkish, French musicians forge new friendship in old music
Zaman | 06/06/07
What importance might traditional Turkish music instruments such as the ney, tanbur, kopuz and rebap, and Western classical music staples like the French ... Read
Reich hopes music keeps reporter Pearl's name alive
ABC News | 29/09/06
Composer Steve Reich does not expect his memorial piece for Daniel Pearl to stop what he calls the "medieval religious war" that claimed the reporter's ... Read
Classical music buyers embrace the iPod age
Gramophone | 03/10/06
Far from being fuddy-duddy traditionalists, classical music fans are embracing new technology as never before, new research reveals. Three-quarters listen ... Read
Sony BMG Masterworks Virtually Disassembled In Effort to Cut Costs, Better Reach Classical Consumers
Opera News | 24/11/06
After nearly two years on the job, Gilbert Hetherwick, the president of Sony BMG Masterworks, has been made redundant as part of an large-scale overhaul, ... Read
How jazz survived the Soviets
The Telegraph | 14/11/06
'For you English, football is more important than life or death," says a young jazz fan in Moscow's Dom club, quoting Bill Shankly's famous comment. ... Read
John Peel's private passion
The Guardian | 06/10/06
John Peel's sudden demise touched the nation so profoundly that even the second anniversary of his death is being marked next Thursday with an entire ... 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
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
S.F. Opera patron donates $35 million
San Francisco Gate | 04/10/06
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 ... 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