NY Times NY Region:
Cabdriver Thanked for Returning a Stradivarius. “As Philippe Quint spent half an hour playing five selections, the cabbies clapped and whistled. They danced in the aisles, hips gyrating like tipsy belly dancers. ‘Magic fingers, magic fingers,’ one called out.” Unfortunately, it seems no Flickristas were there to record the event. Thought I might catch at least one image there.
Louisville Courier-Journal:
Don’t throw Herbert out with the bath water. It’s been a long season of Karajan-bashing.
Reuters:
Carly Simon stays silent about who was so vain. Jagger sang in the background, but the song sounds so Beatty.
Wall Street Journal:
”Prompters are like gods.” Yet we rarely receive kudos for our good work. I used to teleprompt, when I started out in A/V ...
Times Online.UK:
“I don’t do underwear. I never do the washing. How would I know whether my clothes stink? I throw them away.”
Yahoo News/AP:
Florez wows crowd at Met with 18 high Cs.
IHT:
At $42,000, this piano better play itself.
Times Online.UK:
I just don’t get how these violin players keep losing their rare violins. He put it on the luggage rack!?! When I travel with my cameras, much lower in cost ... the bag stays between my feet, strap over my knee. Anyone who’s commuted to NYC knows the luggage rack is ‘free game.’
First time since ‘69/’70 …
I heard CSN’s ”Wooden Ships” on a mainstream pop station while I was driving. I almost had to pull over to the shoulder in disbelief.
Playbill:
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra: A Sex Appeal. Okay, fess up. The only reason we late boomers got into Vivaldi was because of Anne-Sophie Mutter.
The American:
“Aging acts account for most of the music industry’s live performance revenue. What happens when these acts are gone?” Ah, they’ll wheel out Depeche Mode in their wheelchairs to lip-synch “Personal Jesus.”
Guardian.UK:
”Why are there no black ballerinas in the UK’s big companies?”
I mentioned it the other day
and here the Times does a focus article on the Princeton Record Exchange. Synchronicity.
Wired Blog Network, Listening Post:
Guitarati Sees a Rainbow Where Others See Music Genres. Choose music to suit your mood by color.
Guardian.UK:
“For somebody who has spent 30 years in the music industry, you instinctively know this stuff is going on. But when you actually sit looking at your computer and see a number that says 95% of people are copying music at home, you suddenly go, ‘Bloody hell’ ...”
Guardian.UK:
Pavarotti mimed at final performance. All things considered, I would really rather have remained in blissful ignorance. It was an incredible moment, lip-synched or not.
Have you heard
of Xuefei Yang? She’s been getting raves for her classical guitar playing.
La Scena Musicale:
“Feeling the financial pinch? Time to get on the fiddle.”
WSJ:
The Tao of Early Musical Success. How to prevent Charlotte Church Syndrome?
Chicago Sun Times:
Across the country, college-town record shops are biting the dust. That spurred my curiousity ... and I’m glad to see the Princeton Record Exchange is still around. Even looks the same on the inside! And I was last there before the first CD’s ever came out.
Macleans.CA:
Librarians would like to offer digital pop music — but the big labels aren’t co-operating. With free services like Deezer and Pandora, I’m not sure libraries need to go here. Archival sound, yes. Current pop music? Probably not. This is within most library’s budgets, certainly. Hire an intern, reduce to MP3, post.
Scientist Live:
Six organs removed. “To get to the tumor, which was buried deep in Brooke Zepp’s abdomen and threatened to kill her within months, the organ transplant specialist said he first had to remove her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and small and large intestines. The organs were chilled and preserved outside Zepp’s body during a painstaking 15-hour operation at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center.” Of course, when I first saw the title by itself, I was thinking six of these [browser resize warning, and music starts before photo downloads].
Guardian.co.UK:
Italian law to allow Puccini for pooches. As Italy goes, so will the Santa Fe Opera. The border collies will cringe at the arias, the tenors will encourage the ridgebacks and foxhounds to join them ...
Cleveland.com:
Cleveland label releases its first CD of classical music by an American Indian composer.
