December 2011
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Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater →
The entertainment biz story of 2011 has to be comedian Louis C.K.’s self-released video special, whose success so clearly demonstrates the validity of a radically open and direct approach to the distribution of artistic content. The simple fact is that the major label-driven profiteering which has contorted and demeaned the culture industry for decades is increasingly being forced to make...
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“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– Andy Baio conjures a frightening spectre for the major media conglomerates, at least considering how the original Prohibition turned out. But today’s consumers – drinkers, if you will, of ideas and aesthetics – are tapping into streams of discovery and creation whose breadth and depth were...
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As if on cue, a tremendous gift from all of you here on Tumblr. I am humbled and inspired by your interest in my work!
Naturally I’d like to give something back, and to personalize it I’m turning to my very first follower. Sandra, thanks for hanging out this entire time – let me know if there’s an orchestra concert you would like to attend in your area and two tickets are on...
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How Luther went viral →
Substitute ‘major labels’ and ‘digital media’ for ‘Catholicism’ and ‘pamphlet’ and it’s clear that we have an old-fashioned Reformation on our hands in the music business today. Obviously I’m with the Protestants.
[via kottke.org]
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“Mozart devoured all he could of the music of Handel and Bach and earlier...”
– Tom Service makes a critical point about aesthetic influence and borrowing in his recent Guardian piece on Mozart’s Requiem.
So allow me to play devil’s – not to mention artists’ – advocate for a radical deconstruction of ‘today’s copyright’: Would we have...
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#askaconductor →
It’s on for the second year in a row. Tweet at me!
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most...”
– Ernest Hemingway, elucidating an idea by which every musician should live.
[via vineetkaur]
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WatchFollowing up on two earlier posts about Brandenburg 3 here is a look at another of the six famous concerti grossi, courtesy iconoclastic Bach intepreter John Eliot Gardiner and intrepid chamber orchestra English Baroque. The focus this time is the final work of the set – BWV 1051 for two violas, two gambas, cello and continuo – as seen from the player’s point of view.
I’m having a...
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The Contemporary Classical Composer's Bullshit... →
I was going to suggest that conductors might benefit from something like this, but perhaps we’re already good enough at generating our own BS?
[via @timoandres]
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