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A Musician's Legal Toolkit with Brian Goldstein, Esq.
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Michael Ricci
Entertainment law expert, Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq., will lead Chamber Music Americas next First Tuesdays free professional development workshop, A Musicians Legal Toolkit. To avoid conflict with the spring holidays, this First Tuesday seminar will take place on Monday, April 12, 2010, 3:00-5:00 P.M., at Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street in Manhattan.
The seminarpresented in collaboration with St. Peters Church and the Midtown Arts Commonis designed for professional jazz and classical musicians, as well as presenters ...
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Stax Music Academy Summer Program Auditions Held March 13
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Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Calling all highs school musicians and singers! Auditions for the upcoming Stax Music Academy Summer Music Experience will be held Saturday, March 13th from 1-5 p.m. Open to all rising 9th - 12th graders.
This year's Summer Music Experience will take place June 1st through June 26th, Monday-Friday, from 9AM to 5PM. The Experience will include music lessons, workshops, music theory, great performance opportunities, and more. Students must have previous experience playing an instrument or singing. A hot lunch and ...
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Musician's Dictionary
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All About Jazz
AGENT: a character who resents performers getting 90% of his salary.
ARRANGER: a guy who writes to support a drinking habit.
BALLET: an art form for people with eating disorders
BANDSTAND: the area furthest away from an electrical outlet
BIG BAND: nowadays, an aggregation consisting of two musicians.
BROADWAY PIT JOB: a prison sentence disguised as a gig.
CABARET: a venue where singers do songs from shows that closed out of town.
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME: god's way of telling you ...
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Manring, Carrothers, Goldsby for Sligo Jazz Project 2010
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Michael Ricci
Sligo Jazz Project (SJP) announces its 2010 Sligo International Jazz Summer School Faculty. SJP 2010, which takes place in Sligo, Ireland from the 20-25 July, features six days of workshops, masterclasses and concerts. The quality of tuition on offer this year is world class, with some very experienced educators, including electric bass legend Michael Manring, respected US pianist Bill Carrothers, two veteran educators of Jamey Aebersold summer schools, including John Goldsby and more than a hint of youth and vigour ...
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Quiescence Music Celebrates 10 Years Online
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Michael Ricci
The year was 2000, the cusp of a new millennium. The Internet was big and about to get a whole lot bigger. And composer-teacher Edward Weiss had an insight: I constantly saw business after business starting up online stores and selling products. But the same technology that could sell books and software could also be used to help people learn new skills. Playing the piano was one of them. And so Quiescence Music was born an online academy of music ...
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Music is Good for You at Any Age
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Michael Ricci
It may be easier to learn young, but it may be more fun to learn later. “Music is sort of the perfect activity that people can engage in from young to older years," neurologist Gottfried Schlaug says. Let's face it: Many of us looking to sharpen our intellectual edges have already passed the age when becoming a prodigy is an option. We missed the opportunity to start clarinet lessons at 5. We lacked the discipline to practice for hours on ...
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School Wants to Ban iPods
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HypeBot
One U.S. school official may have inadvertently found the solution to the sales slump in record music.
Torrington, CT school superintendent Christopher G. Leone wants to stamp out digital music players at the local high school. Leone recently told the school board he believes iPods likely outnumber the students. “I just don't see the need," Leone wold the Republican American newspaper. “If we had a technology program that was using mp3 players, which we're nowhere near, that would make sense". ...
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Effect of Music on Cognitive Function
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Michael Ricci
Playing an instrument seems to make learning math and foreign languages easier, but researchers arent sure why.
Taylor Bredberg is an ardent fan of the indie band Grizzly Bear and the TV series “Lost," is an amateur filmmaker and a doodler of figures that bring to mind Tim Burton's kinetic grostesques. But if those interests make him a pretty normal teenager, Bredberg's eight-year relationship with the piano may have made him a little more unusual: He is a kid with ...
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