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Tacoma tries classical music to chase gangs from bus stops
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 bus stops. This week speakers are being installed to transmit classical music from KING FM radio of Seattle at the Tacoma Mall Transit Center, ... (30/07) Read
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ZeroPaid | 23/06/08 iMuzique
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The BBC throws open its music vaults to EMI

The Guardian | 16/06/08 iMuzique
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Music for pets while you're at work

The Dallas Morning News | 11/05/08 iMuzique
With most of us spending 40-plus hours at work, that leaves less time to pal around with our four-legged friends. We try all sorts of ways to distract ... More

Dolly Parton and Lessons on Bad Branding

Wall Street Journal | 04/05/08 iMuzique
There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites. That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ... More

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

Led Zeppelin promoter wishes eBay would 'drop dead and die'

The Guardian | 08/10/07
Promoter Harvey Goldsmith has branded eBay the "biggest rip-off merchants in the world" after tickets to the forthcoming Led Zeppelin gig appeared for ... Read

Chavez releases his first CD

Novosti | 02/10/07
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has released his first CD of traditional Venezuelan and Mexican music, entitled Canciones de Siempre or Songs for all ... Read

Rhapsody to deliver music, radio through TiVo

Bizjournals | 09/10/07
TiVo Inc. and Rhapsody America LLC said Tuesday they've partnered to deliver digital music to consumers through any broadband-connected TiVo box. Alviso, ... Read

Yahoo, AOL May Abandon Web Radio After Royalties Rise (Update2)

Bloomberg.com | 29/11/07
Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit may shut down their Web radio services after being hit with a 38 percent increase in royalties to air music. ... Read

For One Dominican Songwriter, Top Music Honors

The New York Times | 09/11/07
Juan Luis Guerra, a songwriter from the Dominican Republic, was the big winner at the eighth annual Latin Grammy Awards last night. His “La Llave de Mi ... 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

Best guitar solos named

Planet Rock | 29/08/06
For the past few weeks, we (British radio station Planet Rock) 've been asking Planet Rock listeners to vote for the greatest guitar solo ever. We compiled ... Read

Radiohead generation believes music is free

Telegraph | 07/10/07
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The day the music industry died

Timesonline | 07/10/07
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Now hear this: surround sound for MP3

Greater Paramus News | 02/01/08
In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ... Read

Zune another kind of four-letter word in Hebrew?

Computerworld | 24/10/06
Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming digital music player, dubbed Zune, may make some Hebrew speakers gasp. The name for the device, which will take on the Apple ... Read

Music program is changing lives of Venezuelan kids

deseretnews.com | 30/06/08 iMuzique
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 iMuzique
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Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain

Ars Technica | 22/05/08 iMuzique
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

The clapped-out legacy of Karajan that impoverished classical music

The Independent | 06/04/08
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Dear Virtuoso, I Wrote This One Just for You

The New York Times | 01/05/07
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An unequal music

The Hindu | 06/11/07
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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

Classical fans figure to applaud new standard for digital music database

The Sydney Morning Herald | 09/01/07
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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
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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

The Pirate Bay to Add SSL Encryption Starting this Week

ZeroPaid | 23/06/08 iMuzique
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The BBC throws open its music vaults to EMI

The Guardian | 16/06/08 iMuzique
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Music for pets while you're at work

The Dallas Morning News | 11/05/08 iMuzique
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Behind the music: The No 1 template

The Guardian | 15/04/08
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Led Zeppelin promoter wishes eBay would 'drop dead and die'

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Novosti | 02/10/07
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Yahoo, AOL May Abandon Web Radio After Royalties Rise (Update2)

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The Independent | 06/04/08
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Behind the blockbusters

Telegraph | 26/12/06
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Telegraph | 13/04/07
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Violinist Hits the Streets on a Mission of Musi

The New York Times | 19/10/07
Walking briskly past Lincoln Center with a violin case in hand and a suitcase in tow, David Juritz looked like a busy orchestral musician arriving in the ... Read

The CD Is Dead! Long live the CD!

Slate | 06/04/07
Mozart wrote only one Requiem, but in recent years, music journalists have written about 80 requiems for the compact disc, mostly in the key of boo-hoo ... Read

Play Mozart to tackle poor behaviour, teachers urged

The Guardian | 29/09/06
Teachers should play Mozart in the classroom to help calm unruly children and improve their work, according to a new book published today. The soothing ... Read