The Good Musician

Please bear with The Good Musician for jumping out of chronological order–came across this tidbit when organizing trip brochures (yes, I collect all that stuff–the arts administrator Web/print schizoid database mind).
Notenspur Music Trail opens fall 2008. It’s a 4.7 km signposted walking trail through musical wonderland. Sort of a pilgrimage to experience the homes and churches of an exceptional musical city. Leipzig was home to so many greats, poets as well as musicians and artists. But the city excels in nurturing music.
This relatively small area–the centrum being only a few dozen blocks or so, is lush with …read more

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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) tagged twenty-six U.S. colleges and universities for file sharing. Five hundred and sixty-nine letters went to students across the country, reports Wired Campus, the Chronicle of Higher Education online ‘zine.
Some universities have refused to forward letters from RIAA to students, and others cite the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in not revealing which students received letters.
Austin City Limits releases the lineup for this year’s ACL Festival in just a few hours. Held the last weekend in September, the 26th-28th, this event brings the seasoned pros and the latest new sounds to …read more

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The first annual Celebrating Women Composers concert at Texas State University delighted the audience with seldom-heard chamber pieces, and the premiere of new works by a trio of up-and-coming Texas women composers. The brainchild of Stephanie Britten Phillips, and supported by the Composition Division of the School of Music, the program honored Diversity Month and Women’s History Month with a bouquet of chamber works in unusual configurations.
New works included Call up a Storm, with composer Jenn McLachlan on flute and John Dye augmenting on a laptop computer. McLachlan used contemporary flute techniques such as bending tones, flutter-tongueing, over-blowing to …read more

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