“The research group estimated that 1.9-million people in Los Angeles listened to Pandora between September and October of 2011. The No. 2 station, KIIS-FM, garnered 1.4-million listeners in the same time frame, according to the survey.”
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Prime Time TV Watching Eroding
Viewers increasingly are using online services, such as Netflix Inc., to get caught up on past seasons of award-winning shows, such as the PBS series “Downton Abbey” or AMC’s “Mad Men,” and watch current episodes through digital on-demand offerings.
Louis Langrée Named Music Director Of Cincinnati Symphony
The 51-year-old maestro, currently music director of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and chief conductor of Camerata Salzburg, succeeds Paavo Järvi, who left last May. Langrée begins his initial four-year term in the 2013-14 season.
Where Artists’ Copyright Meets Commerce, Things Get Messy
“Even if a painting (or drawing or photograph) has been sold to a collector or a museum, in general, the artist or his heirs retain control of the original image for 70 years after the artist’s death. … If someone wants to reproduce the painting – on a Web site, a calendar, a T-shirt, or in a film – it is the estate that must give its permission, not the museum.” Issues arise everywhere from Google Art Project to the 3-D re-release of Titanic.
Engagement? Here’s A Chamber Music Group That Exists To Engage
The new 46-member collective that calls itself The Declassified “plans to give chamber music concerts in various formations. But it mainly wants to establish residencies for weeks at a time at universities, conservatories and just about anywhere else. Performing would be only part of a menu of teaching, master classes and projects that bring audience members closer to performers.”