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New Chopin Museum Opens in Warsaw
Composers 200th birthday will be celebrated all year in his native Poland. A new museum focusing on the life of Frederic Chopin has opened in Warsaw. The last piano that Frederic Chopin composed on. A death mask made after he succumbed to what was probably tuberculosis. A lock of his brown hair. Those are among objects ...
Music Museum Expands with Archive, Library
CLEVELAND - There's always been room at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the exciting, most popular relics, like Michael Jackson's “Thriller" jacket and John Lennon's Sgt. Pepper uniform. But most of the not-so-flashy mementos were tucked away in storage. Visitors will get a chance to see those hidden artifacts beginning later ...
Other Matters: Language, Ya Know?
The Rifftides Department Of Language Reform (DOLR) has been neglecting its duties. Its members claim that their failure to stop the misuse of “absolutely" and “no problem" (see this archives post) discouraged them. At a staff meeting on the subject, the DOLRers moaned that they despair of succeeding where Fowler, Strunk, White, Bernstein, Ciardi and other ...
The Mozart Effect: How Music Affects Children's Brains
Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener. Five months after we are conceived, music begins to capture our attention and wire our brains for a lifetime of aural ...
Sculptor Cork Marcheschi Creates Art Tatum Memorial
After winning a competition, public sculptor Cork Marcheschi creates the Art Tatum Celebration Column in Toledo, Ohio, in honor of that city's jazz genius Art Tatum, a beautifully-illuminated 30 foot sculpture of a piano keyboard with a twist. The Art Tatum Celebration Column in Toledo, Ohio, the most expensive piece of public art ever installed in ...
Singer Anita Baker Avoids Jail in Royalty Dispute
Grammy-winning singer Anita Baker reaches deal in music royalty dispute, avoids jail Anita Baker and her attorneys have worked out an agreement that will help determine how much the Grammy-winning singer's ex-husband is owed in music royalties as part of a divorce settlement. Baker was ordered to a Detroit court Friday after the 52-year-old R&B singer ...
67% Say Concert Tickets Are Too Expensive
As artists big and small begin to announce their spring and summer concert schedules, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 67% of adults who attend at least one professional music concert a year say tickets in general are too expensive. Just 14% disagree, and another 20% are not sure. Seventy-five percent (75%) of ...
Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for Infringing 37 Songs
Harper must pay the RIAA $27,750 for file sharing that began when she was 14. A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 $750 a track for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit ...
Street on Cape Cod Renamed for Patti Page
Patti Page Way named on 'Old Cape Cod' Thanks to the lyrics of her 1950s hit song, Patti Page knew about Cape Cods winding roads before she even visited the area. In a ceremony today, one of those roads was named after her. Naturally, I was honored, said Page, 82, by phone. I was really thrilled ...
Managing Your Digital Remains
Hamlet, that lucky stiff, only had to worry about being or not being what a nice, binary Denmark he lived in. We modern mopes, on the other hand, must consider not only our too, too solid flesh but also our online infinitude. From banking to book-buying, from Facebook pages to busty Warcraft avatars to scrupulously Tumblrd ...
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