“UK music industry revenue fell just 3.4% last year to £795m as the steady decline in the popularity of CDs was offset by a 25% increase in income from digital downloads and subscription services such as Spotify and Napster.”
Tag: 02.16.12
UK Music Magazines Suffer Big Circulation Drops
“Every magazine in the sector that reported a year-on-year comparison saw sales decline against the second half of 2010, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for the six months to December released on Thursday.”
Kodak Gets Its Name Of Off Oscars Theatre
“Eastman Kodak had been seeking to end the $74m, 20-year naming rights deal it signed in 2000. CIM Group, the real estate company that owns the theatre, objected but a judge ruled in Kodak’s favour this week.” Fun Fact: “Of the nine films nominated for this year’s best picture Oscar, seven were shot on Kodak film.”
LA Phil’s Mahler Performance In Caracas The “Biggest Ever?”
“The performance on Saturday — which also will include the combined L.A. Phil and Simón BolÃvar Symphony Orchestra along with eight vocal soloists, all conducted by Gustavo Dudamel — will turn Mahler’s so-called “Symphony of a Thousand” into something 40% larger. This is said to be the most ever for a Mahler Eighth.”
Just How Do You Authenticate A Banksy?
“Fans and prospective buyers turn to Banksy’s official website (banksy.co.uk) for photographic evidence of murals, and the second work in Liverpool does not appear online. However, the artist neither officially sanctions his murals online, nor signs the actual street works for fear of legal repercussions.”
Watching El Sistema At Work In A Venezuelan Slum
“Corrugated tin roofs, ramshackle cinder-block huts, labyrinthine streets caked with garbage and rubble, the possibility of random violence at any turn. And this section of the Sarría barrio is not even bad for Caracas. … So just across the street from such blighted scenes young children with violins and French horns and trumpets filled the spaces of an elementary school on Tuesday.”
An Art Critic Opines On Leonardo Live Cinema Event
Roberta Smith: “[It’s] a strangely hectic, occasionally informative and sometimes even insightful high-definition tour of the [UK] National Gallery exhibition, ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter in the Court of Milan.’ … Thankful as I am to have an inkling of what the Leonardo show was like, I can’t say that it is entirely a promising debut.”