The Moment Blog: The Insider | Nico Muhly
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The composer and musician shares his stylish essentials.
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Most of what Chris Matthews says is mindless trash, but today he pulled out a great analogy immediately after Ted Kennedy's stirring endorsement of Obama. He compared Hillary Clinton to the character Salieri in the movie Amadeus. Until Mozart came along he was the leading composer in Vienna, but he was just a workman, a technician. Mozart had inspiration, feeling, the spirit. Salieri, even though he lived a long life and Mozart died young, is a footnote to Mozart's lasting greatness. Matthews nailed it.  Maybe this makes up for his calling the voters of New Hampshire racists because he and every other pundit read the polling data wrong.
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A documentary grab bag of film clips, diary readings and desultory narration, âA Journey of Dmitry Shostakovichâ peeks at the politics of this controversial composer.
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In a new work, âTerra Nova,â Ben Munisteri sets the fast, difficult beaten steps to a dreamily slow song by Bjork. The effect is both odd and perfect in its place.
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Martin Mills Midem Interview This is the second of four interviews on the State of Digital Music from this week's Midem event in Cannes. We'll hear from AIM's Alison Wenham next, followed by a view from the songwriters and composers.â¦
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Readers sound off on the joys of sticking to the formula, the history of digital music, and who needs saving. Plus: Links to our most commented blog posts.
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The orchestraâs performances at Carnegie Hall this week reminded listeners that character and distinctiveness in classical music have not been obliterated entirely.
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Performance del musicista questa sera nella piÃ¹ famosa comunit&agrave; virtuale del momento. Radio Deejay segue l'evento. Scopri come
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Let the news ring out from Lincoln Center. Send word by satellite radio. Trumpet it in Times Square. An exciting new era was born at the staid old Metropolitan Opera on Monday night.
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CNET's Senior Editor for Digital Audio, Donald Bell, interview Yu Nishibori regarding his futuristic Tenori-On electronic music instrument, produced by Yamaha.
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Un fine settimana pieno di appuntamenti: tutti i concerti di grande musica italiana, gli appuntamenti in libreria, le nuove uscite in sala e il Live@Kataweb. Tutte le previsioni del tempo
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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Thoughtful. Honest. Sensitive. Musicianly. All these terms apply in the best sense to the Austrian pianist Till Fellner.
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DJ, producer and composer Nitin Sawhney is to give his latest classical work its UK premiere in London next month.
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The virtuoso instrumentalist and sometime model known as âthe David Beckham of the classical violinâ couldnât have done more damage if he had kicked his Stradivarius past a goalkeeper. The musician, David Garrett, was leaving the Barbican Center in London after a concert at Christmastime when he fell down a flight of stairs and landed on his violin case. Inside was his 290-year-old Stradivarius, an instrument known as the San Lorenzo. Mr. Garrett, 26, who was 14 when he became the youngest artist ever signed by Deutsche Grammophon, opened the case. Inside, he told The Independent, the London newspaper: âThe violin was in pieces. I couldnât speak, and I couldnât get up. I didnât even know if I was hurt â I didnât care. Iâve had that violin for eight years. It was like losing a friend.â Repairs will take eight months and cost close to $120,000, and the violin may never sound the same. Mr. Garrett is scheduled to perform a Bruch violin concerto on Thursday night at the Barbican on a borrowed Stradivarius. A three-member security team will be helping him watch his step.
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A study by NYU Stern business school professor Vasant Dhar and partner Elaine Chang shows correlational evidence that blog posts increase online sales of recorded music.
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A lovely new show at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum introduces us to the full sweep of this Venetian artistâs career, from the early etchings of antiquities to his eccentric furniture designs.