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ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News - Music
Why Does Music Get Stuck In Our Heads?
 "The mental pathways for music are complex, sometimes including not only auditory areas but also the visual cortex of the brain. Recent research suggests that musical perception is entwined with primitive parts of the brain and that it can influence emotions through the limbic system."... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:34:07 -0800
Scottish Opera Caters To A New Audience: Infants
 "The experimental performances, to be staged at venues across the country, will feature no lyrics, narrative or plot. Instead, classically trained singers will create baby-friendly noises, such as Wellington boots splashing in puddles, buzzing bees, quacking ducks and the fluttering of feathers."... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:16:20 -0800
Is There Room For The Less-Than-Stellar Performance?
 "There's a residual idea in classical music -- actually, in many artistic fields -- that we're supposed to seek perfection: do something as well as it possibly can be done." But what about the notion "that music is a daily need, and that making music and having it around and getting it out to people is more important than making it perfectly"?... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:23:04 -0800
UK Orchestra Association Charts Five-Year Plan For Orchestras
 The Association of British Orchestras has launched a "five-year vision" that calls upon the government to "value orchestras, fund us wisely, legislate supportively and make a real commitment to maintaining music education in schools".... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:57:48 -0800
In UK: Online Music Revenue Growing Faster Than Decline In CD Sales
 "The royalties that UK songwriters, composers and music publishers get from online sales are growing faster than the decline from CDs and DVDs. This is the first time that the annual growth in online revenues has been higher than the fall in revenues from CD or DVD sales."... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:52:37 -0800
Sequenza21/
Fun with Google Books, Part 1
 I’ve been happily exploring all the free stuff available on Google Books, including complete runs of out of print magazines like Life. ?? Check out what Igor Stravinsky used to do when he visited his buddy Charles Chaplin in 1937. Of interest, Stravinsky is described primarily as “the famous conductor,” although in all fairness [...] Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:31:23 +0000
Copyright vs. Copyleft
 In reaction to a roundtable discussion on the subject of copyright on The Hooded Utilitarian blog,??NYC composer Jonathan Newman hits several nails squarely on the head: I realize how mercenary this sounds, but how about making art??AND money? Ultimately I???m unclear how??copyleft (or free culture in general) can maintain my middle class income. As far as [...] Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:29:29 +0000
CMA Commissioning Program Deadline – April 9
 Our friends at Chamber Music America would like you to know that the deadline for their Classical Commissioning Program deadline is fast approaching. Applications must be received no later than Friday, April 9, 2010, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. CMA is offering support to U.S.-based classical/contemporary ensembles, presenters and festivals for commissioning American composers to create new [...] Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:09:12 +0000
VooDoo in the Arkipelago
 Besides helping out here at S21, composer Chris Becker has been racking up some excellent interviews at his own blog. One I wanted to share with you is his recent chat with brilliant, hard-to-classify musician Lawrence Sieberth. For the full interview just head to Chris’s blog (where you’ll also find a link to buy the [...] Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:53:42 +0000
8bb competition to be revised
 To say that there was a bit of discussion on the announcement that eighth blackbird was going to be hosting their first composition competition would be a gross understatement…let’s say that it did not go unnoticed or unheard. To that point, it seems that such discussions can carry some weight, because eighth blackbird has just [...] Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:48:53 +0000
NYT > Music
Bridge Over the Visa Moat for Musicians Trying to Enter the U.S.
 Of the 2,000 bands at the annual South by Southwest Music and Media Conference this week in Austin, Tex., more than 500 are from outside the United States. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Bridge Over the Visa Moat for Musicians Trying to Enter the U.S.
 Of the 2,000 bands at the annual South by Southwest Music and Media Conference this week in Austin, Tex., more than 500 are from outside the United States. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400
A Little Birthday Music for Sondheim
 Stephen Sondheim’s forthcoming 80th birthday was celebrated in a thrilling concert at Avery Fisher Hall. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Another String Group Unleashes Its Inner Rock Band
 Watching Brooklyn Rider play music from its new CD, “Dominant Curve,” it was hard not to think about how string quartets have revamped their image in the last quarter century. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400
His Motives May Vary, but, Alas, Actaeon Is Doomed to Suffer the Same Fate
 On Thursday, Les Arts Florissants presents, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a double bill of baroque operas Charpentier’s “Act?on” and Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400
The New Yorker:  Arts & Culture
Sasha Frere-Jones: The British dubstep duo Nero at (Le) Poisson Rouge.
 The English genre known as dubstep has flourished just as its precursors—garage and drum and bass—did: by letting sounds unfold over the generous course of a d.j.’s evening. Pop songs don’t have that kind of spare time, but they’re always . . . Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Sasha Frere-Jones: Sade’s surprising comeback.
 It sounds implausible now, but there was a time when soft jazz was almost radical. This brief moment should be credited largely to the English. In the early eighties, groups like Everything but the Girl and the Style Council developed a hybrid kind of pop that drew from the more . . . Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Richard Brody: Nicholas Ray’s 1956 melodrama “Bigger Than Life.”
 paragraph class="noindent">The wonders of modern medicine and the comforts of middle-class consumerism provide fuel for the hectic furies of Nicholas Ray’s 1956 melodrama “Bigger Than Life” (Criterion). Based on an article by Berton Roueché that appeared in this magazine, it depicts a . . . Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Leo Carey: Corsino, in the West Village.
 paragraph class="noindent">When you stand at the bar at Corsino waiting for a table to open up, you wonder why restaurants ever fail. Yes, it can be a tough business, but looking around at the chattering throng of youngish, casually affluent people here, success seems easy. It’s . . . Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Hilton Als: The plays of Maria Irene Fornes at <small>INTAR</small>.
 Even if all she’d written was “Fefu and Her Friends” and “Mud,” the playwright and director Maria Irene Fornés, almost eighty years old now, would have done more than her fair share in terms of changing the face of theatre in this . . . Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT
All About Jazz News
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Sizzling Hot Jazz Musical "The Wild Party" Makes St. Louis Premiere
 New Line Theatre, "the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre," continues its nineteenth season of provocative, adult, alternative musical theatre with the St. Louis premiere of Andrew Lippa's rowdy, raunchy, jazz musical THE WILD PARTY, running April 22-May 15, 2010, at the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend. Tickets are on sale now, through Metrotix, 314-534-1111...
FESTIVAL/CRUISE: 24th International Folk Music Festival
 Eleven countries from around the world will be represented by student groups performing a variety of folk music styles. Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:15 p.m. Berklee Performance Center 136 Massachusetts Avenue Boston MA 02115...
WEB/TECH: You're Leaving a Bacterial Fingureprint on Your Keyboard
 The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch. In a new study led by microbiologists Rob Knight and Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, researchers swabbed three different keyboards and nine mice for bacteria, then compared the genomic variation between the communities to deduce whose hands had been touching what. The people were clearly identifiable from the bacterial communities they'd transferred to their computer input devices...
WEB/TECH: You're Leaving Bacterial Fingure Prints on Keyboards
 The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch. In a new study led by microbiologists Rob Knight and Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, researchers swabbed three different keyboards and nine mice for bacteria, then compared the genomic variation between the communities to deduce whose hands had been touching what. The people were clearly identifiable from the bacterial communities they'd transferred to their computer input devices...
PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Fishtank Ensemble: Gypsy Wagons, Slap Bass and Mad Loves
 Gypsy Wagons, Slap Bass, and Mad Loves: The Unseen Musical Forces behind Fishtank Ensemble Parked next door to a sandwich truck sits a hand-built, mule drawn "Gypsy wagon," like an apparition from a bygone era, in the driveway of a contemporary hillside home in Hollywood, California. Belonging to Fishtank Ensemble, it embodies the wild and wooly journeys of the band's eclectic and eccentric members - vocalist Ursula Knudson, violinist Fabrice Martinez, guitarist Doug "Douje" Smolens, and bassist Djordje Stijepovicwho share a vibrant passion for unbridled creativity and music with Roma roots. The quartet with a quirky name blazes new musical trails on their new album, Woman In Sin due out May 11, 2010 (fishtankensemble.com)...
PlaybillArts.com
Opera Spotlight: Quinn Kelsey
 Baritone Quinn Kelsey makes his New York role debut as Sharpless in New York City Opera's Madama Butterfly beginning March 19 at the Koch Theater. The Hawaii native talks about the character and some of his other career highlights thus far. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST
Wyclef Jean Joins Lang Lang and Eschenbach For March 21 Haiti Benefit
 Grammy Award-winning musician Wyclef Jean will join Lang Lang, Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra on March 21 at Carnegie Hall for a concert aiding UNICEF and the children of Haiti. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:00:00 EST
March Madness at Lincoln Center
 An overview of a particularly busy month of Lincoln Center programming which features opera premieres, special chamber music offerings and a variety of classical events. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST
Corella Ballet Dances into City Center March 17-20
 Longtime ABT dancer ?ngel Corella's recently created Corella Ballet Castilla y Le?n will make its U.S. debut at New York City Center March 17 ? 20. Matthew Murphy profiles the 2-year-old company, established in 2008 as Spain's only classical ballet ensemble. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST
Iv?n Fischer Leads and the Beethoven Cycle in NY March 25-28
 The Hungarian maestro Iv?n Fischer plays "The Nine" with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a quartet of Lincoln Center concerts between March 25 and 28. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:00:00 EST
NYT > Jazz
Seamlessly Wedding Cuban Rhythm to American Jazz
 Bobby Carcass?s, a singer, trumpeter, pianist, conguero and connector in Cuban jazz, performed at the Jazz Gallery on Thursday. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400
A Jazz-Pop Encounter: The Sequel
 The latest collaboration between the jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and the pop producer Jon Brian, who teamed on the influential album “Largo” eight years ago, will be released on Tuesday. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Jazz Listings
 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Johnny Alf, a ‘Father of Bossa Nova,’ Dies at 80
 Mr. Alf was an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Cruising or Fired Up, an Unchanging Language
 The tenor saxophonist Houston Person began his first set at the Jazz Standard on Thursday night at a cruising tempo. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500
NewMusicBox
Garrett Fisher&mdash;<I>At the Hawks Well</I>
 There is a fluid back and forth motion across continents and centuries that impresses when it comes to the work of Garrett Fisher. It's showcased once again in his latest piece At the Hawks Well. Tuesday, March 16, 2010
The Aesthetes vs. the Omnivores
 By Frank J. Oteri
The classical music business and the wine business in the United States have both traditionally marketed themselves on the elite and ultimately somewhat pretentious conceit of masterpieces whose unchallengeable provenance would be determined by aesthetes; but in a world where everything is relative, there are no masterpieces. Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Sounds Heard: Newman &amp; Oltman Guitar Duo&mdash;Music from Raritan River
 By Frank J. Oteri
This disc of music for guitar duo devoted to a broad range of composers, including work by composers not typically associated with the guitar, is pretty exciting. Monday, March 15, 2010
Building to Scale
 By Dan Visconti
One of the most important things I have realized about writing for the orchestra and other large forces is that, just as with Lego and Duplo, large ensembles can't really be handled like small ensembles simply blown up to scale; they generally call for much broader gestures. Thursday, March 11, 2010
Child of Amerika: A Musical Manifesto
 I get approached all the time by folks both young and old alike who are getting started in this crazy business. This is what I tell them. Wednesday, March 10, 2010
 
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