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TV review: Maestro at the Opera

Where has all the laughter disappeared to in the BBC’s upper-class X Factor? One of the TV comedy highlights of 2008 was Peter Snow, who states he adores classical music, attempting to conduct an orchestra. With a wild look in his eye and a maniacal grimace, he waved his arms about all over the place, beating two, then three, then maybe five. He demonstrated no talent or understanding for Prokofiev, whose Dance of the Knights he left not just dead but horrifically dismembered. It was a joy.

Max: A Musical Portrait of Peter Maxwell Davies – review

An affectionate look at the Orkneys’ reclusive composer proves both touching and revealing A few weeks ago composer Peter Maxwell Davies made the news by suggesting that audience members who forget to switch off their mobile phones should be fined if the performance is interrupted. There was a very obvious irony here: anyone listening to one of Maxwell Davies’s early works could be forgiven for wondering whether a ring tone had been written into the score. Back in the 1960s, Max, as he is commonly known, was one of the enfants terribles of British music – a pioneer of the ...

Demi Lovato’s ‘Skyscraper’ Music Video Premieres: Watch the Clip

Barefoot and wearing a plain white dress, Demi Lovato belts out her latest single, “Skyscraper,” from an empty desert in her new music video. The track premiered on Monday night, sparking a frenzy of Twitter reactions and shooting straight to the top of iTunes. It is Lovato’s first release since entering a treatment facility in late 2010. STORY: Demi Lovato’s ‘Skyscraper’ Earns Celebrity Recognition on Twitter “Go on and try to tear me down,” she sings. “I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper.” In an interview on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, Lovato detailed her emotional journey while ...

Euro Online Music Service Spofity Announces U.S. Launch

BERLIN – After more than a year of hype and rumors, popular European streaming music service Spotify has finally announced its U.S. launch. The Swedish-based operation has just put up a holding page for its U.S. service. Interested users are asked to supply an e-mail address for updates on the impending launch. The site does not provide any details on pricing and partners but Spotify was believed to be close to a licensing deal with Warner Bros. Music, the last of the major labels it did not have an agreement with for the U.S.

Warner Music Group Shareholders Approve Sale

NEW YORK – Warner Music Group shareholders have approved the $3.3 billion sale to Len Blavatnikat a special meeting of stockholders on Wednesday. Shareholders will receive $8.25 per share in cash at the closing of the transaction, which is expected later in the current third quarter. The adoption of the sale was approved by holders of 145,819,757 shares of the company’s outstanding common stock, while the owners of 165,810 shares voted against it, the company said. The approval on an advisory, or non-binding, basis, of “golden parachute” compensation for company executives was also approved.

Music Review: Better Day

Parton is that rare singer who can make optimism seem like a viable philosophy. When country music goes upbeat, it often traffics in cornball novelty tunes, but Dolly plays her album full of love ‘n’ hope with straight-up sincerity. In the midst of hard economic times, the positive anthems that fill Better Day — all new material, no covers — come off as brilliant strategy, with some equally brilliant vocal performances. A- Download These: Selena Gomez’s When the Sun Goes DownRave On Buddy Holly (Various Artists)

Michael Jackson’s Money: How Much He’s Made After Death

Michael Jackson may have died in 2009, but his once-suffering estate is now thriving on profits from music sales, licensing agreements, and upcoming projects. Legal documents filed in February and obtained by Reuters claim that while Jackson was over $400 million in debt at the time of his death, his estate has made more than $310 million in the years since. The estate’s administrators have used that money to pay off Jackson’s debt, as well as to care for the estate’s beneficiaries: Jackson’s children, his mother, and a variety of charities.

Kraftwerk appear on Tomorrow’s World

1975: Number 1 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance music The germinating moment for British dance music occurred, strangely, in a 1975 edition of Tomorrow’s World, which featured four young Germans dressed like geography teachers, apparently playing camping stoves with wired-up knitting needles. This was Kraftwerk performing Autobahn. “The sounds are created in their studio in Dusseldorf,” presenter Raymond Baxter explained, “then reprogrammed and then recreated onstage with the minimum of fuss.” Here was the entire electronic ethic in one TV clip: the rejection of rock’s fake spontaneity, the fastidious attention to detail, the ...

Gwen Stefani Talks Style, Music and Making Movies (Exclusive Q&A)

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale Clad in a floor-length ivory gown with her platinum blond locks pulled back into a voluminous hair-sprayed bob, highlighting her dramatic smoky eye makeup and long, thick lashes, Gwen Stefani’s beauty team was still putting the final touches on her hair and makeup for the day’s L’Oréal Paris False Lash Mascara commercial shoot when The Hollywood Reporter arrived. While she may be famous for her hit single “Don’t Speak,” Stefani had plenty to state when she sat down to chat at a private villa in Cannes — she dished about her ...

Bonnaroo: Woman dead at camp ground

Tragedy hit this weekend’s Bonnaroo festival today, as the festival’s organizers confirmed the death of a 32-year-old woman at the Manchester, Tennessee music event’s camp ground. The cause of death had not yet been determined. The woman—whose name has been withheld pending notification of her family, but has been identified as having lived in the Pittsburgh area—was found by her friends on Thursday night (June 9) at the camping area. It continues an uncomfortable trend of casualties at music festivals, especially at Bonnaroo.