Posted in Music, Uncategorized on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Look at what song was number one on the Billboard chart the day you were born. (HT: Ann Althouse) Yikes!
Of course, it doesn’t have to be your birthday. Other important days (some of which are rather ironic):
Stock market crash, October 28-29, 1929: “Tip Toe Through the Tulips” by Nick Lucas
FDR’s inauguration, [...]
Posted in Music, tagged Music on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Charlie Martin writes an obituary, perhaps not too far in advance, for the record companies:
There is a new business model coming, one that will be built around the musicians and their works; promoting them, getting them visibility, letting people know about them. It will be good for musicians themselves, and not just the big name [...]
Posted in Music, tagged brain, creativity, jazz, Music on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
I worry about improvising while undergoing an MRI, but the results are intriguing:
The scientists found that a region of the brain known as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a broad portion of the front of the brain that extends to the sides, showed a slowdown in activity during improvisation. This area has been linked to planned [...]
Posted in Music, tagged Music on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Legal downloads of 25 million songs.
Posted in Music, economics, tagged economics, Music on January 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is the CD becoming extinct? How is anyone going to make money from music? (HT: Instapundit and Samizdata)
IN 2006 EMI, the world’s fourth-biggest recorded-music company, invited some teenagers into its headquarters in London to talk to its top managers about their listening habits. At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them [...]
Posted in Music, philosophy, tagged borges, Music, possibility, time on January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Deep thoughts from Glenn Reynolds here. I like the “Garden of Forking Paths” image invoked by Jorge Luis Borges and exploited by Anil Gupta and Richmond Thomason in their development a logic that combines tense and modality. From that point of view, as we get older, the garden in front of us thins. [...]
Posted in Music, tagged Music on December 31, 2007 | No Comments »
NPR lists the top ten unknown artists of 2007. I especially like Lucinda Blackbear and Georgie James.
Posted in Music, tagged Handel, Messiah, Music on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
The St. Cecilia Music Series is sponsoring a performance of Handel’s Messiah—the 1759 Foundling Hospital version, the last version Handel himself prepared, unabridged, on baroque instruments—over three nights at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, 15th Street, Austin, Texas:
Friday, November 30, 7pm: Part I.
Saturday, December 1, 7pm: Part II.
Sunday, December 2, 6pm: Part III.
Posted in Music, tagged Music on November 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
This Thursday, Chanticleer, a Grammy-award winning men’s choir, will be performing in Austin.
This will top off an excellent musical week for me. Today, I played with Rich Harney and Alex Coke, and sang with Kinley Lange and an 80-person choir.
