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apple music classical

Apple's new classical music service is launching in two weeks.  Online music services are fairly hostile to the genre, so it'll be interesting if this will work with fans.

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According to the announcement, Apple Music Classical will offer an experience tailored for the classical music listener with the ability to search by composer, work, artist, or even catalogue number, and find specific recordings instantly, thanks to complete and accurate metadata. It will also offer ‘hundreds of curated playlists, thousands of exclusive albums, composer biographies, deep-dive guides for many key works, intuitive browsing features and much more’.

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the sound of nota dame

Trying to recreate the cathedral's sound quality as it rises from the ashes.  Headphones on!

 

 

tickets and concerts

On ticket sellers, scaling, and something of a messy crises.

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In a 2006 paper titled “Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music,” written with Marie Connolly, Krueger reports on data that he and twelve Princeton students collected at a Springsteen concert in Philadelphia, on October 6, 2002. Every ticket cost seventy-five dollars, and the box-office amounted to around $1.5 million. Krueger and his researchers found that a quarter of the fans they interviewed before the show had bought their tickets on the secondary market, where they had paid an average of two hundred and eighty dollars. Had Springsteen charged the market price for all tickets, he would have collected about four million dollars in additional revenue, a figure Krueger calls “astounding.” Studying concert-ticket sales, Krueger also told me, is not all that different from analyzing mortgage-backed securities, which were at the heart of the financial crisis. Both are bought and then resold on a secondary market, and “both markets are also subject to price bubbles, lack of trust, inadequate regulation, and imperfect information.”

By drastically underpricing the Izod Center tickets, Springsteen was inadvertently helping to create the circumstances for an orgy of speculation and scalping on the secondary market. The desire for a hot ticket is not an economic calculation; it’s a craving. Thanks to the Internet, satisfaction is only a couple of mouse clicks away.

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bear on the music behind the current adaptation of lotr

Bear McCreary was responsible for the music in the current version of Lord of the Rings.

 He offers commentary on his blog.  Useful for LoTR fans, it's useful if you can sight-read.

 

 

 

a harp player as a studio musician

shchedryk

another performance - first in English and then in the original Ukrainian ..  It's not a Christmas carol.

comma fun

some music

things they didn't teach in school

Francis Scott Key and The Star Spangled Banner,

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First, a few things to know about the War of 1812: One of the main issues was the British practice of impressment — the forced conscription of American sailors to fight for the Royal Navy. Plus, the British promised refuge to any enslaved Black people who escaped their enslavers, raising fears among White Americans of a large-scale revolt. The final provocation was that men who escaped their bonds of slavery were welcome to join the British Corps of Colonial Marines in exchange for land after their service. As many as 4,000 people, mostly from Virginia and Maryland, escaped.

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a tip of the hat to Bjarne

 

yo-yo

His latest project - finding nature and people

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The audience, so casually assembled, didn’t know that it was taking part in Ma’s latest project, Our Common Nature, an intentionally broad and searching initiative that explores ways in which we can heal, and enrich, our relationship with the world around us. It has taken him to the Grand Canyon and Acadia National Park, to the Great Smoky Mountains and Hawaii; as it expands beyond national parks, he hopes that it will also lead to Antarctica. And, for a few days in September, it brought him to the coal-rich Appalachians of West Virginia.

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