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  • July 2008

    • 'Grateful' Symphony Debuts

      NPR  |  Jul 27, 08 2:00 PM CDT

      'Grateful' Symphony Debuts

      (Newser) - The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will debut this week an opera derived from the music of the Grateful Dead, on what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 66th birthday. Titled Dead Symphony No. 6, each movement goes truckin' on a different Dead song. The Grateful Dead is “long overdue to be taken as a phenomenon beyond the music itself,” composer Lee Johnson told NPR. More »

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      music  • Baltimore  • opera  • composer  • bands  • Grateful Dead  • Baltimore Symphony

    • Video-Game Industry Scores Big-Name Composers

      BusinessWeek  |  Jul 9, 08 3:30 PM CDT

      Video-Game Industry Scores Big-Name Composers

      (Newser) - Far from the shrill beeps of a decade ago, video-game music has come into its own with compositions approaching the maturity of film scores, BusinessWeek reports. A new wave of composers is putting time and effort into sophisticated soundtracks that mark the continuing expansion of video games as a form of entertainment. More »

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      music  • video games  • composer  • video game developers

  • May 2008

    • Global Warming, the Opera

      Associated Press  |  May 30, 08 4:45 AM CDT

      Global Warming, the Opera

      (Newser) - It started out as a slide show, became an Oscar-winning documentary and best-selling book, and now Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is about to become a full-length opera, reports the AP. Milan's La Scala opera house has commissioned Italian composer  Giorgio Battistelli to set Gore's stark warning on global warming to music, for the 2011 season. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • Al Gore  • opera  • composer  • An Inconvenient Truth  • La Scala

  • April 2008

    • Shhh! Europe Law Forces Orchestras to Tone It Down

      New York Times  |  Apr 19, 08 9:46 PM CDT

      Shhh! Europe Law Forces Orchestras to Tone It Down

      (Newser) - A new law in Europe to protect employees from ear-damaging noises is stifling a surprise industry—orchestras. Conductors are taking it down a notch to comply, in one case canceling a world premiere because it exceeded the allowable decibels in rehearsal, the New York Times reports. At the Royal Opera House, musicians have to wear earplugs—akin to telling a "race-car driver they have to wear a blindfold," said one oboist. More »

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      European Union  • classical music  • composer  • noise  • orchestra  • conductor

  • March 2008
  • February 2008

    • Philip Glass: Trained By Life

      Details  |  Feb 29, 08 7:24 PM CST

      Philip Glass: Trained By Life

      (Newser) - Philip Glass paid $30 in rent in 1960s New York City, drove a cab to support his composing, and didn't make a dime on his work until he was 41. "I was trained by life," Glass tells Details of working at the kitchen table while his kids watched TV in the same room. As for creating music in isolation, "you're dreamin'." More »

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      New York City  • drugs  • classical music  • composer  • Philip Glass  • Timothy Leary

  • December 2007

    • Composer Stockhausen Dead at 79

      Guardian (UK)  |  Dec 7, 07 9:11 PM CST

      Composer Stockhausen Dead at 79

      (Newser) - Karlheinz Stockhausen, the controversial composer who wrote the world's longest opera—29 hours, to be played over 7 days—has died at the age of 79, the Guardian reports. Though he inspired the Beatles and won high critical acclaim, Stockhausen also snubbed modern music trends and received little mainstream acceptance during a prolific career. More »

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      obituary  • composer  • Opera

  • October 2007

    • The 100 Biggest Brains in the World

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Oct 29, 07 4:38 PM CDT

      The 100 Biggest Brains in the World

      (Newser) - The Daily Telegraph jumps to point out that a quarter of its list of 100 living geniuses are British, and that that's one living genius per 2.5 million people—a higher proportion than for any other country. Americans still dominate the list, though, with a hefty 43 geniuses. Albert Hoffman, Swiss, chemist Tim Berners-Lee, British, computer scientist George Soros, American, investor and philanthropist More »

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      list  • Nelson Mandela  • composer  • Stephen Hawking  • Matt Groening  • Philip Glass

    • Composer Gone Wild? Vivaldi Faces Lurid Spotlight

      Times (UK)  |  Oct 20, 07 10:13 AM CDT

      Composer Gone Wild? Vivaldi Faces Lurid Spotlight

      (Newser) - The life of Vivaldi, the Italian composer best known for The Four Seasons and the Gloria , is music to the ears of authors and Hollywood producers. Two new books and an upcoming movie dwell on the supposedly salacious details of his 18th-century personal life, though at least one researcher thinks it's all hogwash, the Times of London reports. More »

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      Italy  • composer  • Antonio Vivaldi

  • August 2007

    • Doctor Killed Beethoven, Says Pathologist

      Associated Press  |  Aug 29, 07 7:35 AM CDT

      Doctor Killed Beethoven, Says Pathologist

      (Newser) - It's not exactly  CSI , but the classical era now has its own forensic murder investigation. A new Austrian study has concluded that Ludwig von Beethoven died from overdoses of lead administered by his doctor with the intention of healing him. Beethoven suffered from cirrhosis of the liver, and that organ's absorption of the lead killed him. More »

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      doctor  • lead poisoning  • composer  • pathology

  • April 2007

    • Rostropovich Dead at 80

      Washington Post  |  Apr 27, 07 2:23 PM CDT

      Rostropovich Dead at 80

      (Newser) - Cellist, conductor, and one-time Soviet gadfly Mstislav Rostropovich, who used to instruct his orchestras to "play as if you are being tickled in the sides," died today in Moscow. Rostropovich, whose 17-year-run as the head of the National Symphony Orchestra tranformed it from a middling ensemble to one of the world's premier orchestras, was 80. More »

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      music  • obituary  • classical music  • composer  • USSR

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