I draw to your attention an informative and powerful essay by Guido Fackler on music in the Nazi camp system. It deals both with music as an instrument of domination and torment and with music as 'a defense against the...

The Art of Fugue cont. IX :- Some good footwork:- More footwork (how does his brain know what to do all the time?):- And just a boy, on such a powerful machine (Liverpool, down-t’road):- Some lesser-known Widor:- And from Poland, at the second-most-revered pilgimage site in the country:- Posted in Anglosphere, Liberty Tagged: classical liberal civilisation, concerts, music, organ music

DOVES, Feargal Sharkey and Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis join politicians to discuss the impact of the election on music in a BBC 6 Music debate at 3pm tomorrow.

The influence of recording companies, commerciality and marketing upon popular music is so often commented upon as to be part of the mainstream consensus. To a certain extent the development of alternative distribution networks parallel to the record companies in the late 1970s, and the more recent changes in technology that allow music to be advertised

One policy proposal in the pantheon of measures the music industry would like ISPs to take includes a monthly charge to some or all customers to 'allow' them to download illegal music. The revenue would be given to music companies.Its not clear which 'companies' exactly, these funds would go to. One assumes it might be a little tricky to recompense indie outlets. Then again they don't pay lobbyist...

Peter Davis And its America, F*** YEAH! I can play this on the cello: and some more nice music: Posted in Liberty   Tagged: America, canon, cello, clubbed to death, explosions, fuck yeah, holberg, Kim jong il, kurayamo mix, lonely, music, nice music, pachabel, risk relief and victory, rob dougan, ronery, space, stars, suite, supreme commander, team america   

From Glenn Gould to Peter Pears and Maria Callas: the indefatigable Terry Teachout presents his list of 25 essential classical recordings. In a way, it's also an elegy for the music industry of old: It may well be that performances of comparable quality and individuality continue to be given today, but if so, they will go unheard by the music lovers of tomorrow, for with rare exceptions they ...

Two little nuggets: From his earliest days, George Lascelles was blessed with an extraordinary ear for music and interest in facts about music, an eccentricity which prompted his uncle, the Prince of Wales (later the Duke of Windsor), to remark: “It’s very odd about George and music. You know his parents were quite normal —

GCSE results are out tomorrow, and a particularly interesting exam will be the music one set by the OCR board. Students who took this back in May were either delighted or disturbed to discover that the answers to some of the questions in one paper were given away in the copyright acknowledgments at the end. For example, the examinees had to listen to a piece of music and identify the composer, a t...

There is something about just really good Music. It touches the bones in all of us. Now our tastes may vary greatly, but we all can recognize a piece that is just done really well. In this video is a song that hits my bones, it has all the essentials of a sound in music that you only get out of the backward hills, swamps and bayous of the U.S.I hope you enjoy this, the song starts at 02:35 . I cou...