“EMI’s labels include Blue Note, Capitol, Parlophone and Virgin Records. Labels included under the Universal umbrella are Def Jam, Motown, Decca, Island Records, Interscope Records and Polydor Records.”
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New Efforts To Stop Helicopters From Hollywood Bowl Flyovers
On an average night, four or five helicopter flights disrupt the music. The effect down below: “On so many nights, you see people looking up and cursing under their breath, and there’s sort of a group groan. On a good night, you can get a collective groan of 18,000 people.”
Poll: Big Majority Of Canadians Happy Funding The CBC
“A Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press suggests 46 per cent of Canadians would like the CBC’s funding to stay at the current level and 23 per cent would like it to be increased.”
In This Connected World, The More Connected You Are The More You Influence Taste For The Rest Of Us
“If you do those things, congratulations: The world will shape itself around your taste, whenever you enter a venue that understands the value of keeping you happy. If not, well, you’re on your own, so to speak, and will increasingly be subjected to the taste of those social butterflies around you who don’t mind letting services track what they’re listening to and where they are.”
Military Vets Turn To Art To Get Over Trauma
“Although many of the veterans who try the therapy may never have had any interest in art before, there are some servicemen who actively pursue the craft and use it to reflect their experiences.”
More Musicians Working. But Why Fewer Stars?
“It’s called the YouTube boom. The number of registered songwriters in Britain has topped 83,000. That’s a 62% increase in just five years… But Britain’s Performing Rights Society (PRS), which collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and musicians, says there is a crisis brewing. The number of young performers breaking through in terms of album sales is down by 30% compared to 2009, it says.”
MoMA Reunites Five Diego Rivera Murals
At New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1931, Rivera “produced five ‘portable murals,’ large blocks of free-standing frescoed plaster, concrete and steel that depict events in Mexican history. After the exhibition opened, Rivera created three more murals, each capturing scenes of Depression-era New York. Now, for the first time in 80 years, five of the murals will be united at [MoMA].”
NJ Performing Arts Center Fires Programmers, Moves Toward Pop Music Industry
“The new CEO at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center didn’t take long to shake things up. John Schreiber has fired long-time programmer Stephanie Hughley and her assistant, replacing them with a promoter with strong ties to the for-profit music industry.”
Annabelle Lyon, Early Star Of US Ballet, Dead At 95
“[She] joined the American Ballet, George Balanchine’s first American company, in 1935 and also appeared with Ballet Caravan, a troupe organized by Lincoln Kirstein in 1936 to promote American choreography. In 1939 she became a charter member of Ballet Theater (now American Ballet Theater).”
Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King
“Q: I also wanted to ask you about the difficulty of actually writing something that is connected with real history.
A: Well, I never tried anything like that before, and I’m not sure that I would ever want to try again, because, man, it was too much like work.”