The Pointy End
When Did We Start Cheering For Music Encores?
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
When you’re at a concert, classical or otherwise, you might feel that an encore is a given — even if the music was OK at best.
The last thing you'll ever hear: what is the world's best deathbed music?
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Why is there so little music for the dying? Maybe we’re shy of these fragile moments, feeling they’re too intimate to intrude upon with any extraneous sounds.
Now computers are writing perfectly acceptable pop songs
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
"Ugh," my dad used to grunt when I switched on Radio 1 . "This music sounds like it was written by a computer".
John Philip Sousa Feared ‘The Menace of Mechanical Music’
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
That’s why he foresaw our age of earbuds and the CDs, eight-tracks and records that came before it. And he wasn’t on board for any of it.
La saga des droits du Boléro de Ravel
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- Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Les Paradise Papers révèlent que la saga des droits d’auteur de Maurice Ravel passe encore et toujours par les paradis fiscaux : Les Pays-Bas et l'île de Malte.
Music 33,000 Feet Above
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2017
How does one kill time on board a transcontinental flight? Some are determined to sleep over. Some keep watching movies until get tired and fall asleep.
Think You Can't Sing? Science Doesn't Believe You
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2017
I’m tone deaf. I can’t sing. It’s usually accompanied by a smile or laugh, but the message is both clear and absolute. And wrong.
'There Seems to Be a Target on the Back on the Live Music Community'
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Deadly attacks have turned concert venues in Paris, Manchester, and Las Vegas into grisly battlefields.
Classical and Jazz musicians show different brain responses to unexpected events
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- Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Scientists at Wesleyan University have used electroencephalography to uncover differences in how the brains of Classical and Jazz musicians react to an unexpected chord progression.
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