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Violinist Hits the Streets on a Mission of Musi
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 city for professional engagements. But Mr. Juritz, concertmaster of the London Mozart Players and guest leader of the London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, won't be wearing concert tails on this visit. (19/10) ReadYou may also like
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
Is the Internet Turning Musicians Into Buskers?
Wired News | 01/05/08 
Richard Shindell, a singer-songwriter who paid his dues behind an open guitar case on the floor of Paris Metro subway stations as a street musician, has ... Read
Apple to Resolve EU Case on ITunes Prices, People Say
Bloomberg | 09/01/08
Apple Inc., the maker of the best- selling iPod media players, will settle European Union claims that its policy of varying prices at its iTunes music ... Read
Conspiracy Against Shareaza and Open Letter to the Recording Industry
Torrentfreak | 02/01/08
La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, ... Read
RIAA Complaint Dismissed in California in Interscope v. Rodriguez.
Recording Industry vs The Peopl | 10/09/07
In a default judgment case in Southern California, Interscope v. Rodriguez, a judge has dismissed the RIAA's "boilerplate" complaint for failing to ... Read
RIAA charged with extortion
p2pnet | 06/06/07
The RIAA Settlement Support Center involved in her case is, she says, "a company organized for the sole purpose of contacting prospective defendants and ... Read
Piano smugglers face the music
Reuters | 13/04/07
Chinese smugglers are suspected of dodging taxes to the tune of $1.3 million in the sale of thousands of imported pianos, with eight separate cases before ... Read
Judge's decision leaves RIAA with lose-lose situation in Elektra v. Santangelo
Ars Technica, | 23/03/07
The case of Elektra v. Santangelo has been one of the more closely followed cases in the RIAA's crusade against suspected file sharers, due in no small ... Read
Apple Knows Who Stole Your iPod
San Diego Reader | 08/09/06
One Monday morning last month, I found that my car, parked on Third Avenue in Hillcrest, had been broken into and my $400 video iPod was gone. After filing ... Read
How Spector evidence stacked up
BBC | 27/09/07
Actress Lana Clarkson was found dead from a gunshot wound to the mouth in Phil Spector's home in California in February 2003. With no witnesses to the ... Read
Kiri Te Kanawa Wins 'Panty-Throwing' Lawsuit
Playbill Arts | 27/03/07
Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa has prevailed in a breach of contract lawsuit brought against her in Australia, a case that achieved global notoriety because of ... Read
Microsoft wins reversal of MP3-patent decision
ZDnet | 07/08/07
The judge of a California district court threw out the damages after finding that a jury improperly ruled that Microsoft infringed one of two patents at ... Read
Spector trial expert backs suicide theory
L.A Times | 27/06/07
Phil Spector's murder defense team began its case Tuesday with testimony from a prominent forensic pathologist who said the circumstances of Lana Clarkson's ... Read
Ashanti testifies in contract case
USA Today | 19/09/06
Ashanti told a courtroom Monday that she was a teenager trying to follow her dream when she worked a decade ago with a producer who wants more than $2 ... Read
50 Cent Talks His Way Out Of The Whole ‘Quit Music' Thing
Hecklerspray | 14/09/07
Clearly, though, that isn't the case - 50 Cent didn't mean that he'd actually quit music, or forever, or if Kanye West sold more albums than him this ... Read
Judge: music labels have to prove sharing
Ars Technica | 26/12/06
The beat goes on in the world of file-sharing litigation. Earlier this week, the case against Patti Santangelo was dismissed without prejudice and refiled, ... Read
RIAA drops file sharing case
Ars Technica | 17/10/06
The RIAA has dropped its case against Chicagoan Paul Wilke, with the two parties moving to dismiss the case with prejudice in federal court late last week. ... Read
Robot conductors could take the baton from us
The Guardian | 18/05/08
There's more to leading an orchestra than simply beating time, but how long will it be before Honda and co make a robot that can understand music too?
Can ... More
Ruben Vartanyan; Conductor Defected From Soviet Union
Washington post | 11/05/08
Ruben Vartanyan, an orchestra conductor who defected from the Soviet Union in 1988 and spent the past 20 years in Northern Virginia, leading the Arlington ... More
The orchestra that is saving children's lives
Telegraph | 06/09/07
A 12-year-old boy is on the streets, hanging out in derelict tenement blocks next to a motorway. At 13, he's hooked on crack cocaine, carrying a gun and ... Read
A symphony for Kazakhstan
The Telegraph | 01/05/07
After Kazakhstan's outraged official response to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat movie - which included a summit meeting with George Bush in Washington and ... Read
Goth queen Siouxsie rocks with orchestra
Signonsandiego.com | 30/03/07
Long before Madonna, Siouxsie Sioux mastered the formidable art of style over substance. Never a great singer but always a riveting performer, the Londoner ... Read
Mashayekhi to test John Cage's unusual music in Iran
Mehrnews.com | 06/03/07
Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor Nader Mashayekhi plans to test Iranian tastes for the unusual music of U.S. avant-garde composer John Milton Cage, ... Read
Ella Fitzgerald's Never Before Released Recordings
jazz news | 08/05/07
To celebrate what would have been Ella Fitzgerald's 90th birthday, Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Records are co-releasing Love Letters From Ella, ... Read
UK orchestra 'pioneers' podcasts
BBC | 12/09/06
The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is to produce a monthly podcast, claiming a first for a major ensemble.
Ex-BBC Radio 3 presenter Tommy Pearson will ... Read
The Rise of a Musical Superpower
Le Courrier International | 10/04/07
Mahler's Eighth may or may not be the greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario ... Read
Concerto for drill and software
The Guardian | 14/11/06
Most amateur orchestras expect their players to be able to scrape or blow a few notes to order. But no such restrictive demands are made on those wanting ... Read
When he takes the stage, anything can happen
The Denver Post | 10/11/06
A few weeks ago, Boulder pianist David Koorevaar talked to a Chicago colleague who mentioned that the once-heralded Ivo Pogorelich was coming for a recital. ... 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
Venezuela's music schools lift poor kids to world stages
San Fransisco Chronicle | 15/12/06
Amid tumbledown cinder-block homes, the Don Bosco community center rings with music. A chorus of pint-size students sings traditional Christmas songs; ... Read
An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin
The art of funerary violin, alth | 20/04/07
The art of funerary violin, although little known today, emerged during the Protestant Reformation and for almost 300 years was an integral part of European ... Read
Stevie Wonder gives Taste-y performance
Chicago Sun-Times | 30/06/08
Saturday afternoon Stevie Wonder returned to Taste of Chicago with a concert that was generous, adventurous, populist, humorous and amorous.
"A lot ... More
Mandela concert offered music, recruited new warriors
Detroit Free Press | 30/06/08
Some moments in history are great when they happen: an inaugural speech, a call to dream, a final farewell from a television icon who has told you for ... More
Estonians Fight for Their Freedom Through Music
redOrbit | 23/06/08
As a nation that spent many decades under the constant watch of Soviet Russia, singing was an expression of a culture that refused to be crushed. It was ... More
Ending on a high note - just not a high C
Ottawa Citizen | 11/05/08
Twenty minutes before our concert last week I was trying to calm myself with judicious decisions: which notes to skip and where to drain the spit?
We'd ... More
Music biz lawyers wary of labels' new grab
Reuters | 29/12/07
Like it or not, major record companies are expected to continue drafting their artist contracts so that labels share a piece of most -- if not all -- of ... Read
Why modlife / Angels & Airwaves have a right music model
Philgalland's Weblog | 18/04/08
Modlife is interactive website for fans of the band Angels & Airwaves (created by Tom Delonge, former lead singer of punk-rock band blink182). People who ... Read
Macca's marriage split cost him £1.5m already
La Libre | 29/08/06
Sir Paul McCartney is donating £1.6 million to a landmine charity after pulling out of a fundraising event he was due to host with his estranged ... Read
Led Zep, YouTube, and a Broken Record from Warner Music
Portfolio.com | 12/12/07
As we report on Portfolio.com today, within hours of Led Zeppelin's historic reunion concert in London on Monday, fans in attendance started posting videos ... Read
Concert sites slam agency's levy
Telegraph | 05/12/07
Band managers behind 400 artists from Robbie Williams to Radiohead and KT Tunstall have formed a new rights society that hopes to collect a slug of the ... Read
Jamiroquai Takes it To the Skies
The Jaunted | 02/03/07
Funk rockers Jamiroquai (you know, the future - virtual insanity...) are having a tough time getting gigs these days apparently. The band just played a ... Read
Historic buildings at risk from rock concerts
The Guardian | 14/09/07
Rock concerts at some of the UK's most important historic buildings have put them at risk of damage from powerful bass note vibrations, according to research ... Read
The Pirate Bay Introduces Music Discovery Feature
Torrentfreak | 30/11/07
If you click on show detailed artist info on a torrent page it will show a list of similar artists, other albums from the same artist, upcoming concerts ... Read
Beyonce to cover up for Malaysian concert
Khaleej Times | 03/09/07
Just weeks after US singer Gwen Stefani covered up for a concert in Malaysia amid a furore over revealing outfits, her compatriot Beyonce is facing similar ... Read
Would You Like Some Music With Your Tickets?
Pollstar | 08/11/07
Once upon a time, in the pre-digital analog world of yesterday, people bought albums at brick-and-mortar establishments known as "record stores" and ... Read
The daily cicada concert: Is it music?
Wednesday Journal | 06/06/07
Seventeen summers ago I was hanging out in Iowa City, sweating through grad school, and too engrossed in my work to care much about the periodical cicada ... Read
Hannah Montana: Music Jam
ABC News | 29/11/07
If you are looking for an alternative to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert series, the new video game "Hannah Montana: Music Jam" may be just the ticket ... Read
Irish music takes off again
Timesonline | 23/06/08
In the right hands, the bodhran and the bouzouki can still inflame the senses, and sometimes the oldest traditions can be entrusted to the care of younger ... More
Bankers call new tune over EMI finances
Telegraph | 18/05/08
The private equity vehicle run by city financier Guy Hands is fighting to meet financial targets set by Citigroup in a bid to avoid a fractious showdown ... More
Music video game linked to injuries
TV5 | 18/05/08
The video game, Guitar Hero that lets anyone be a rock star, has been linked to a growing number of injuries.
Guitar Hero's been a smash hit around ... More
Music's healing touch
The Hindu | 18/05/08
Later this year, over 30 young people from Shillong and Lucknow will travel to Rio and experience the work of Afro Reggae first hand.
In the heart of ... More
Artist Managers Protest New EMI Regime
Billboard | 11/01/08
EMI is facing the prospect of an artists' revolt, with representatives of major acts Robbie Williams and Coldplay expressing concern at the current state ... Read
Legacy of winning the wrong auction
Financial Times | 27/11/07
Bankers bored of the credit squeeze are now obsessing over Guy Hands and his £4bn investment in EMI. Word is the chief executive of buy-out group ... Read
Courtney Love denies criticising Amy Winehouse over drug use
Daily Mail | 03/09/07
Rocker Courtney Love has hit back at claims she criticised Amy Winehouse over her drug addiction. Love has denied reports she was shocked at the Back to ... Read
Guy Hands needs a new frontman for record label in quick time
Timesonline | 30/11/07
Guy Hands has been busy since taking over EMI in September. His Terra Firma private equity group has made money on 24 of his 25 deals – the exception was ... Read
Nervy lenders could put the skids under EMI's buyout deal
The Times | 26/07/07
The buyout of EMI could become the latest victim of the turbulence in the debt markets, as lenders to its private equity buyers threaten to pull funding ... Read
Hands warns of ‘fundamental change' at EMI
Financial Times | 03/11/07
EMI will drop artists it feels are not working hard enough and “unpick” its own executives' pay packages, its new private equity owner has told staff. ... Read
Music and Print.
The Age | 24/09/07
John Lennon started it all back in 1964 when the lovable moptop assembled his Milliganesque black humour and primitive expressive drawings into his first ... Read
Universal Music tests the mixtape waters
Scientific American | 20/08/07
In a move designed to fill the void created by the Recording Industry Association of America's crackdown on the formidable business of mixtapes, Universal ... Read
Terra fFrma to squeeze emi million$
New York Post | 13/11/07
Guy Hands' Terra Firma, on the hunt for additional equity investors in EMI, is telling prospective partners they can nearly quadruple their money in the ... Read
Under The Hammer For Music Rising
U2 France | 27/03/07
Edge's Gibson Les Paul, Lennon's sunglasses, Springsteen's hand-written lyrics and a signed sax from Bill Clinton are among 200 pieces of music memorabilia ... Read
Warner Music's Madonna Complex
The New York Times | 12/10/07
As if digital music sales and unauthorized file-swapping weren't bad enough, now the Warner Music Group has another potential headache on its hands. Her ... Read
Digital music charlatan puts hands up
The Inquirer | 27/02/07
FOR POSSIBLY THE FIRST TIME in its illustrious history, posh music magazine The Gramophone has a news story on its hands. As we reported earlier, William ... Read
Job Offer Affirms Value of a Hit-Making Producer
The New York Times | 06/02/07
Rick Rubin, the star music producer who had a hand in three of the five albums up for album of the year honors at the Grammy Awards next Sunday, has rarely ... Read
Behind the blockbusters
Telegraph | 26/12/06
This was the year of blockbusters and anniversaries. Mozart was inescapable, Shostakovich hardly less so. Much less visible was the 150th anniversary of ... 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
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
Why I turned my back on my homeland
Telegraph | 13/04/07
I meet the Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires on the morning after she had given one of those limpid, lucid, subtly shaded performances of a Mozart concerto ... 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