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This week on SoundNotion, the panel considers Grammy nominations, teaching choir online, changes to Spotify, the travails of meaningful community engagement, the danger of Leistungsschutzrecht and the passing of two music greats.
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- This week on SoundNotion, the panel considers Grammy nominations and the fine craft of Classical Compendiuming.
- Online choir practice? A virtual school in Ohio is giving it a shot.
- Heard of Leistungsschutzrecht? If this law passes you might not even be able to look up Leistungsschutzrecht. Tell your friends.
- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek presents new features and a (very little) bit on artist payments.
- Dan Visconti at NewMusicBox considers the value of opening up the workshop to the public. Sam considers fisticuffs with Dave.
- The music world says goodbye to Dave Brubeck (1920-2012) and Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012).
- Igor Stravinsky‘s Three Pieces for Clarinet (1919), perf. Ensemble Watler Boeykens – Amazon MP3
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eighth blackbird’s Lisa Kaplan joins the panel to discuss the group’s recent Grammy win, the Golijov-Bergeman “scandal”, out-of-this-world Kickstarter patronage, and much more!
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- eighth blackbird’s Lisa Kaplan fills us in on what it’s like to win a Grammy and the Award’s place in contemporary classical music.
- Osvaldo Golijov and Michael Ward-Bergeman: Was it really plagiarism? Is this all hype? Thoughts on Sidereus and Barbeich. (Is this a “-gate” yet?)
- Christopher Rouse has been named Composer-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic. Check out their upcoming season here.
- Luis Andrei Cobo is asking $150K on eBay to write a full opera with all the bells and whistles. What a deal! Best to snatch this one up while it’s still available.
- Kickstarter is giving the National Endowment for the Arts a run for its money. It’s set to bring in over $150 million in 2012.
In this episode we cover the Grammy winners, an Oscar song nomination, a live score performance of Return of the King, a Bear McCreary interview, a 1930s campaign against recorded film scores, as well as what Kevin and I have been listening to this week.
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- Watch the Grand Rapids Symphony perform a live score to The Return of the King.
- The best song nominees may not be performed at Oscars.
- Bear McCreary talks about the role of the perfect fifth in Sci-Fi themes.
- 1930 ads that show the American Federation of Musicians attacking recorded film scores.
- Congrats to the 2012 Grammy winners:
- Best Musical Theater Album: The Book of Mormon (Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
- Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: Boardwalk Empire Vol. 1 (Various Artists)
- Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media: The King’s Speech (Alexandre Desplat)
- Best Song Written for Visual Media: I See the Light (from Tangled, Alan Menken & Glenn Slater)
- Oscar song nomination part 1: Man or Muppet by Bret McKenzie
Man or Muppet, you might like this even better! – iTunes – Amazon MP3
This week the panel is joined by #FoTS Ty Forquer. We discuss the Grammys (GO YORK BOWEN!), Oliveros’ Cage Award, the classical cred of Radiohead vs Reich, the salvation of classical music (ASIANS!) and Sam gets buyers remorse over Glass Symphony No. 9.
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- The Grammys are next week. GO YORK BOWEN!
- Pauline Oliveros gets a little Cagey (and rolls 50 large).
- Which came first – the Reich or the Radiohead? The panel proofreads The Telegraph.
- Can Asians save classical music?
- #FoTS Rob Deemer wants to let the inmates run the asylum.
- And some of the panel finds the Glass Symphony No. 9 to be only about 250% too long. Happy 75th maestro.
- Symphony no. 9 by Philip Glass, perf. Bruchner Orchester Linz – iTunes
