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More Classical Musicians Firing Up Tech To Do Their Work

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Smartphones and tablet computers might soon be classical musicians' best friends.
10:00AM
February
12, 2013

Next to a Steinway or a Stradivarius, a classical musician’s most important piece of equipment might now be a smartphone.

Louisville Orchestra Musicians Reject Per-Service Demand

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Louisville Orchestra may go from High Performance to No Performance
8:30AM
July
14, 2011

Louisville Orchestra Musicians Reject Per-Service Demand, The Czech Government fears Seizure of Loaned Strads and Lovers of the Lo-Fi…there are more of them than you’d think.

Two Boys Reviews Are In – Audiences Rave, Critics Bored

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Nico Muhly's first opera, Two Boys, opened this weekend at the English National Opera.
2:53PM
June
27, 2011

Reviews are in for Nico Muhly’s new opera, Two Boys, which premiered this weekend at the English National Opera. See what critics and audiences had to say.

A New Opera For (And About) The Facebook Generation

Two Boys promo website
Nico Muhly's first opera, Two Boys, opens this week at the English National Opera.
3:22PM
June
22, 2011

Nico Muhly’s first opera, Two Boys has not even opened, but it has already sparked serious debate around questions as profound as whether or not the increasingly dominant role that the internet and technology plays in our life is a good or bad thing.

Clarinetist Wants You To Live-Tweet His Recital

Clarinetist David Thomas
Clarinetist David Thomas is encouraging audience participation on Facebook and Twitter during his recital this evening of music by Paul Jeanjean.
1:24PM
May
27, 2011

During his recital tonight, Columbus Symphony Principal Clarinetist David Thomas is encouraging people to participate by live-tweeting and posting comments to his facebook page.

Olympic Ice Skating is Set to Music That is Subpar

Winter Olympics 2006, Torino (Turin) Italy
Poetry in motion, but can you fix the music, please?
9:03AM
February
23, 2010

What is it with the music at the Olympics? It seems that when you have a budget that, according to one report, exceeds 1.75 BILLION dollars, the music for the ice skaters could be just a little better.

Using Cell Phones to Make Music

Ocarina app
Ocarina app
12:40PM
October
16, 2009

There are several ways to play and create music on your mobile phone, but the one which captured my fancy is the Ocarina app, which replicates the sound of an ages-old wind instrument.

New Technologies Offer Something Gained and Something Lost

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There is something about the push-button ease of our high-tech on-the-go lifestyle that says, "I've got five versions of Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony on my iPod, so I can listen to it anytime I want."
5:53PM
June
24, 2009

Imagine what the experience of music must have been like before the invention of recording technology, before iPods, downloads, uplinks, CDs, tapes, and even records and turntables, let alone old 78 RPM Victrolas.