Program aims to keep musicians in Big Easy
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Dan Oestreicher is a 23-year-old saxophone player, not long out of college, who has lived with friends since Hurricane Katrina&#039;s floodwater drove him from his apartment. A new housing program aims to turn him into a homeowner.
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Instead of trudging to the campus library, students studying classical or rock music at Penn State University will soon be able to listen to songs required for those courses on their home computers.
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Given the shifting tides of the  recording industry, breaking in as a jazz bandleader poses  increasing challenges, not only in raising one's profile but  also in rustling up the funds to pay the support musicians.
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Far from soothing the savage breast, music is driving some of the world&#39;s largest companies into a frenzy of competition. At stake is participation in, if not command of, a multibillion-dollar
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With $25 seats and programs by contemporary composers, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra hopes to do away with two common complaints about classical music &#151; cost and old-fashioned music.
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In the marginalized world of music education, a good deal of serious thinking needs to be done.
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As orchestra pits grow smaller to accommodate seating, musicians have been deployed to perform in remote rooms.
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By Raloff, Janet  TECHNOLOGY  Alain Crevoisier had reckoned that it would be easy to turn almost any hard surface into a keyboard, drum head, or other input for a computer-controlled musical instrument.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Booster clubs for high school marching bands that have made it to the state finals have spent more than $12 million the past four years for props, music and other necessities that help make the bands successful.
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People want to listen to music while they are on the move, rather than watch video, research suggests.
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There is a place where the audience for free, over-the-air radio is growing, not shrinking, where new technology allows listeners to pause and rewind songs as they play or to bookmark their favorite tunes.
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The Sphinx Organization, a national nonprofit, works to increase minority participation in classical music.
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After doing a lot for New York musicians, John Corigliano can now indulge himself.
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The eMusic Selects service provides exposure -- and deals -- for underrepresented artists.
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In an abbreviated program from the International Contemporary Ensemble, two pieces offered examples of how differently machine-made sounds and acoustical instruments serve the human voice.
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Some computers can beat grandmasters at chess. Others can compose music.
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They've bumped and grinded and sung their way