“Classical music did not figure large in [the online service’s] original plans. However, finding that its classical stations were performing slightly better than market share indicated they should, the company has made a significant push … The result: three new classical stations, available as of today, with a Goldilocks array of choices.”
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Joni Mitchell Has Had It With Her Hometown
Fed up with the city’s four or more failed attempts to set up a museum or memorial in her honour, the singer said, “Saskatoon has always been an extremely bigoted community. It’s like the deep south … I feel that it’s very isolated, very unworldly, and doesn’t grasp the idea of honour … People don’t get me there. They don’t get my ideas. They just look at me like I’m famous.”
Arts Council England Restructuring (To Save Money) Has Cost Almost £10 Million
“An ACE spokesperson said that it anticipated that the costs of the restructure would be recovered via savings in the next two financial years, while stressing that £2.3 million of the redundancy payments come from a pot given to ACE by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport specifically for that purpose.”
JK Rowling Details The Complications Of Writing Under A Pseudonym
”The situation was becoming increasingly complicated, largely because Robert was doing rather better than we had expected him to, but we all still hoped to keep the secret a little longer. Yet Robert’s success during his first three months as a published writer (discounting sales made after I was found out) actually compares favourably with JK Rowling’s success over the equivalent period of her career.”
Old Rock LPs Become Investment Vehicles
“For people who grew up during rock ‘n’ roll’s 1960s-to-1980s heyday … rock memorabilia is as legitimate a collection as rare coins, stamps and first editions. Some of these vinyl junkies now occupy the highest ranks of America’s business, government and art worlds, spending big money on the countercultural bric-a-brac of their youth.”