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Chaser of Beer, Rock or Bebop With Your Bach?
YOU might not expect to find a polished young ensemble like the Parker String Quartet playing music by Beethoven, Bartok and Ligeti — or collaborating with ensembles like Las Rubias del Norte, which specializes in Latin American folk music — in the no-frills back room of a Brooklyn bar. But the group spent this season as the resident quartet at Barbès, a Park Slope bar that regularly presents classical performers in a schedule otherwise devoted to jazz, pop and world music. (16/06) MoreYou 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
Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain
Ars Technica | 22/05/08
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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
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
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
Arcade Fire singer undergoes surgery
Ireland on Line | 20/04/07
Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler has undergone a successful operation after a string of health problems. The singer, who turned 27 on Saturday, had been ... Read
Courtney Love is set to auction off a string of Kurt Cobain's belongings for charity.
Gigwise | 01/05/07
The Hole frontwoman says she has little use for most of the items and wants to give away them at the famous auction house Christies. Love said: “I'm ... 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 Good News About 'GooTube'
Wired News | 17/10/06
Everyone knows that Google bought YouTube last week, but it's hard to say what this so-called GooTube video service will look like a year from now. Just ... Read
Britney Spears jokes about 'panty-gate' paparazzi furore
Turkishpress.com | 08/12/06
Pop princess Britney Spears has spoken out about a string of recent photos showing her partying minus her underwear, admitting that she had probably taken ... 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
For iTunes hacker, the freedom of the open code
CNET | 24/11/06
He was 15 years old at the time and quickly became known in hacker circles as "DVD Jon," a wunderkind of reverse engineering who tore down cumbersome ... Read
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
Prince Dates Twin Caribbean Twins, Demands All-Black Hotel Room, Acts Generally Crazy
Dose.ca | 01/08/07
This just in: Prince is kind of crazy. The diminutive hit-maker has reportedly demanded a London hotel transform a suite into an all-black liar for him; ... Read
Toussaint explores life after Katrina, outside the Big Easy
Scripps Howard News Service | 15/05/07
Allen Toussaint never left New Orleans. He spent virtually his entire distinguished career playing piano, singing, writing songs and making records with ... Read
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Rolling Stone | 06/03/07
Michael Jackson apparently flew to Japan over the weekend in order to de-jetlag in time for the super special party he's hosting in Tokyo this week. On ... Read
Pioneering venture
Haaretz.com | 22/12/06
One of Nahum Heiman's main tools in recent years is cotton ear swabs. Last Tuesday the composer sat in one of the rooms of his home, which he calls "the ... Read
Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
Wired News | 02/01/07
Here are some predictions for 2007: Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 ... Read
Iggy Pop's concert rider funniest in rock history?
The Smoking Gun | 10/10/06
As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever ... Read
Musopen puts classical recordings, scores in public domain
Ars Technica | 22/05/08
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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
Copying Beethoven was a challenge for Ed Harris
Seattle Times | 07/11/06
Who's afraid of Ludwig van Beethoven? Well, Ed Harris was, just a bit. In almost three decades of moviemaking, the blue-eyed character actor has played ... Read
All That Jazz doing fine despite doom in music industry
Steamboat Pilot & Today | 30/06/08
For the past 10 years, music magazines have been flooded with articles about the death of the record store.
Joe Kboudi — who opened Wednesday with twice ... More
Swedish jazzman Svensson dies in scuba accident
Reuters | 16/06/08
Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson, who helped break genre boundaries and attracted a young audience outside the traditional jazz scene, ... More
Bands are getting into bed with consumer brands
Timesonline | 04/05/08
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Cheadle Takes on 'Miles'
Tmz | 05/12/06
TMZ has learned that Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle ("Hotel Rwanda") plans to direct and star in "Miles Davis," a biopic of the legendary jazz innovator. ... Read
Blue Note label to offer downloads'n'social on web
The Register | 16/08/07
Jazz and blues record label Blue Note plans to revamp its website from later this month, transforming it from a regular corporate front window to a combined ... Read
A downbeat year, but it had some bests
The Seattle Times | 29/12/06
This wasn't the greatest year for jazz. Locally and at large, the music appears to be in a holding pattern, trying to find new meaning — or at least a ... Read
Jazz and Jihad: the discourse of solidarity
Middle East Online | 17/04/07
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Archdeacon against Sir Elton John's visit
Jamaica Gleaner | 16/03/07
Controversy is emerging over the sexual orientation of British entertainer Sir Elton John with one local religious leader opposed to bringing the singer ... Read
Marsalis's music swings past politics
Boston.com | 06/03/07
In advance of ‘‘From the Plantation to the Penitentiary,'' his suite of jazz and criticism out today, Wynton Marsalis has said he likes to put out a ... Read
Hollywood embraces Miles Davis
BBC | 29/09/06
Instead of the usual handprint in cement, a bronze bust of the trumpet player has been put on display outside the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard. For ... Read
Jazz saxophonist won 11 Grammys, backed pop stars
Dispatch.com | 16/01/07
Michael Brecker, the versatile tenor saxophonist who died Saturday of leukemia at age 57, was regarded by many musicians and critics as a virtuoso of technique ... Read
Coltrane at 80 -- a talent supreme
San Francisco Chronicle | 22/09/06
In an art form more celebrated for its sinners, John Coltrane, who somewhere over the rainbow will turn 80 on Saturday, held the honor of being the music's ... 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