'Star Wars: In Concert' focuses on the music Oct 7, 2009
Roffman said the idea for the memorabilia display - which includes everything from Williams' original sheet music to a pod racer hull from "Episode I" - came from Perloff. Brilliant idea. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Taking video and stills with one camera Oct 6, 2009
Q: I need software to create sheet music on my Windows PC. I want to be able to write music on multiple staffs, for example a brass quintet, not just piano and voice. It's important to make the product look as much like professional sheet music as possible. (San Francisco Chronicle)
1 dead, 10 injured in rollover crash on I-95 Oct 4, 2009
"Backpacks and church sheet music were all over the highway.". While the trooper wouldn't comment on whether the children were wearing seat belts, Townsend said the children were not buckled up. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Nat's Legend Lives Oct 3, 2009
The Coles are looking specifically to target school programs with the least economic funding schools with sheet music and instruments that are 20 to 30 years old. Some schools they visit don't even have music stands. (Fox News)
Johnny Cash Memorabilia Donated To Virginia Tech Oct 1, 2009
The collection includes sheet music, memoirs and other memorabilia ... The material includes a collection of Carter Family sheet music and a biography written in 1980 by Johnny Cash. (KWTX.com, TX)
Recordare Adds Finale 2010 Support to Dolet 5 for Finale Plug-in Sep 24, 2009
This combined support makes MusicXML the first universal format for digital sheet music files. Contact. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Pianist shares music at nursing home Sep 21, 2009
"No sheet music," she said, as she tapped her head. "I have it here.". (Sioux City Journal)
More of this story Sep 20, 2009
But mostly, his focus is on running the shop, which offers music lessons and sells and rents new and used instruments and equipment as well as sheet music. This is a particularly busy time of year; they rent roughly 200 instruments per season to students at five area school districts, including Westerly, Chariho and Stonington. (Westerly Sun, RI)
BU limits paper route for students Sep 20, 2009
Under cover of night, an anonymous group of engineering geniuses recently scaled the campus iconic Great Dome and installed the first seven notes of Rick Astley s Never Gonna Give You Up on temporary scaffolding, cleverly noting the resemblance of its horizontal lines to a blank piece of sheet music. This was hardly the first time the dome has been targeted. (Boston Globe)
1000 songs in your pocket, batteries not required Sep 15, 2009
All around him are signs of his craft: a rack of bows, reference books, sheet music, instrument cases, tiny thumb planes, even a picture of Albert Einstein cheerfully playing a violin. One of half a dozen violin makers in Australia, Mr Johnston produces about eight instruments a year. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Julian Lage and his group practice patience Sep 11, 2009
While his tunes are often intricately constructed, he avoids handing out sheet music, preferring to talk through every piece, with each player devising his own part. Hal Crook says the only reason to improvise is to play something that the music needs, said Lage, referring to the veteran trombonist/arranger with whom he studied at Berklee. (Boston Globe)
Understanding Thinking Skills Sep 11, 2009
Critical thinking skills are necessary to interpret and process sheet music, but creative thinking skills are needed just as much to perform a piece that has aesthetic qualities with feeling. Developing Critical or Creative Thinking Skills. (Suite101.com)
He's hellbent on purgatory Sep 11, 2009
A lovely illustration Blake made for sheet music of a sailor stepping off his boat, into the arms of an ethereal-looking wife and child, hangs alongside "Satan," a close-up portrait of a heavyset man in torment ... A lovely illustration Blake made for sheet music of a sailor stepping off his boat, into the arms of an ethereal-looking wife and child, hangs alongside "Satan," a close-up portrait of a heavyset man in torment. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Kindergarten Activities on the Lett... Sep 10, 2009
Display some sheet music for the class and ask if anyone knows what the markings are ... If possible, play an instrument and explain that each tone is the note they saw on the sheet music. (Suite101.com)
MakeMusic Updates SongWriter and PrintMusic Sep 9, 2009
95, SongWriter lets songwriters, teachers, band and choir directors, church musicians, students and other musicians create publisher-quality sheet music with instrumentations of up to 8 staves. SongWriter includes tools that inspire creativity including Drum Groove and Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Senior notes, September 2009 Aug 29, 2009
Donations will be accepted to help cover the cost of new sheet music. For more information, call the Senior Center at 781-861-0194. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Research and Markets: 2009 Worldwide Record, CD, Tape Production Industry Report Aug 29, 2009
Sheet Music Publishing. Sound Recording Studios. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Musicnotes honors Les Paul with free offer Aug 29, 2009
com, an online publisher of sheet music, is offering a free interactive Guitar Guru Session and guitar tab download of the song "Over the Rainbow" through Sept. 2. Guitar Guru is Musicnotes' guitar tutorial software. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
Alfred Music Publishing and Musicnotes.com Partner to Honor Les Paul's Memory with a Free "Over the Rainbow" Guitar Lesson Download Aug 28, 2009
"In lieu of payment, Musicnotes and Alfred Music Publishing encourage users who choose to download the song to send donations to the Les Paul Foundation, 236 W. 30th St., Seventh Floor, New York, N.Y. 10001.The free download is available online at .About Musicnotes:Musicnotes, Inc. offers an online catalog of 100,000 digital sheet music titles, built on the strength of content agreements with Alfred Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Faber Music Ltd, Sony/ATV Publishing, Universal Music... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Cherry Lane and Musicnotes.com Enter into Online Sheet Music Distribution Agreement Aug 27, 2009
com Enter into Online Sheet Music Distribution Agreement - Yahoo ... com Enter into Online Sheet Music Distribution Agreement ... ORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cherry Lane Music, one of the worlds leading independent music publishers, has entered into a worldwide licensing and distribution agreement with , the market leader in downloadable sheet music. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Williams named as Economic Development Director Aug 27, 2009
When everyone sings from the same sheet music it makes it that much easier. The economic professional said some of the positive things about Farmington s potential for growth are the availability of land on which to locate new industry and businesses, the close proximity to an interstate, and the infrastructure already in place to accompany development. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
‘A Voice of Her Own’ and ‘Shattered’ Aug 27, 2009
I imagine sheet music on a stand in front of me and walk through the notes in my brain. I hum and breathe, singing the notes the way they would sound coming from my violin. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
A summer serenade Aug 26, 2009
it s a rest, instructs Steve Matthes, referring to the sheet music in front of the musicians. A chemist and an accomplished musician, Matthes has been conducting the band for 32 years. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Blind since birth, Ken Strong relishes role as 'Showboater' Aug 25, 2009
He does not take sheet music home to study; instead, grabs CDs to learn the music. Strong is blind and has been since birth. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Music Man Murray prepares to spin last record Aug 24, 2009
As he spent years pursuing his dream, he managed restaurants, drove taxis, even packed parachutes to support a wife and three kids while taking singing lessons, collecting sheet music and buying records, lots and lots of records. Eventually he began a successful career as a cantor. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Sean Kingston album gets fans online with karaoke Aug 23, 2009
All Pocket Songs karaoke titles are available at Sheet Music Plus. Low prices, quick shipping, and no hassle returns. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Let's make the best of fresh start Aug 23, 2009
It's not quite time to break out the champagne and start singing Happy Days Are Here Again, but indications are it wouldn't hurt to dust off the sheet music and practice in the shower. In one way or another, everyone has been hit by this powerful recession, whose impact is second only to the Great Depression. (Greenville Delta Democrat Times, MS)
Mystery of which author is Oxfam's 'most donated' solved Aug 21, 2009
A first edition of JRR Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings sold for 800, while a rare print of the sheet music to Don Giovanni raised 750. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- UK)
Kind of Bloop: Miles Davis as Video Game Music Aug 20, 2009
"You write a program and feed it to the computer, which reads it as if it were sheet music," explains 24-year-old Sam Ascher-Weiss, whose cover of Davis' "All Blues" appears on Kind of Bloop. "You see what it sounds like, mess around with it, and try it again." Asher-Weiss is a chiptune anomaly: he is a jazz pianist and working musician in New York City. (Time.com)
'Introductions': 4 emerging artists Aug 14, 2009
Kresnik's whimsical works range from lively charcoal illustrations of iconic artists rendered against a landmark from their country of origin (for example, the Beatles rendered against the London Bridge), to compelling pen-and-ink drawings of musical icons like Ray Charles and Ravi Shankar, mapped onto pages of sheet music ... Vidalon's content includes artist books of already existing sheet music that are layered with her own calligraphic, hand-drawn riffs of notes and symbols. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Play it again, Nora: Piano-pawing cat loves the attention Aug 12, 2009
He sent the gray tabby cat sheet music and a signed photo of himself. She sent back a signed photo of herself. (USA Today -- Life)
Organist's creative touch tickles Braves fans at Turner Aug 9, 2009
If he doesn't have the sheet music, he'll find it on www. rhapsody. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Missoula Stampede trademarks ‘Cut 'er Loose' Aug 9, 2009
Fair historian Stan Cohen was in the Museum of America in Polson a few years ago when a piece of sheet music caught his eye ... Cohen found a copy of the sheet music in the Western collection of Bill and Ramona Holt of Lolo. (Missoulian, MT)
VIDEO: Klamath Symphony Summer Strings CampFree concert 6:30 p.m. tonight at Triad School Aug 8, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009 11:16 AM PDT Susan Kester adjusted her violin against her shoulder, eyes dancing over sheet music while Krista Morgan, Paul Brown, and Cindy Reed looked on. We re going to do the allegro, Kester said. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Get in on the act: Directors, actors offer advice on auditioning Aug 5, 2009
If you can, prepare 16 bars of music and bring the sheet music to the audition for the piano accompanist. Some auditions will let you sing a common song such as Happy Birthday to show your singing voice. (Florida Today)
Researchers unveil Mozart piano pieces in Austria Aug 4, 2009
Sheet music, recently identified as part of a childhood creation by Mozart, is seen during a press conference held by the research department of the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. Mozart's momentous legacy grew Sunday as researchers unveiled two piano pieces recently identified as childhood creations by the legendary composer. (USA Today -- Life)
GOING DIGITAL-FREE: Five readers take the challenge Aug 3, 2009
Ray Soto practices his drumming using sheet music ... " Usually, he drops by briefly on weekend mornings, to pick up his mail and grab breakfast. Day 4: Soto is honing drumming skills, the old-fashioned kind. Because he can't listen along to the songs (Nirvana's Sappy and 's Cyanide) he was practicing via iTunes, he has been reading sheet music instead. "It's introducing more structure and better timing and rhythm ... " Revelation: No matter that the night before his iPhone went live again he... (USA Today -- Life)
Music offers Civil War experiences, humor Aug 3, 2009
Sheet music was mass produced, he said, pianos were becoming affordable and a family might gather around in a parlor to sing in the evenings. This is the way that people would entertain themselves, he said. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
Research and Markets: 2009 Trendology: U.S. CD, Record & Tape Stores Aug 1, 2009
Sheet music publishing. Audio Video Production. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Disney's Little Einsteins TV Show R... Aug 1, 2009
To familiarize children with music notation, the music of the day is displayed as sheet music, accompanied by a portrait of its composer. Phrases from this composition will be woven throughout the soundtrack of the rest of the episode, and often its main theme will feature in the plot. (Suite101.com)
Band camp helps musicians pump pep into routines Jul 31, 2009
The freshmen go from learning how to read sheet music while sitting down, to a scenario where they are asked to memorize music, play while marching, and also to do so in choreographed formations. U High starts its one-week camp Monday. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Richard Gordon has an idea about how to save Lodi Unified School District music programs (484) Jul 28, 2009
It isn't (the students) that caused the problem," he said.But he wants to do something about it and the district is willing to listen.Gordon would like to see senior citizens form a group to volunteer to teach music to young people. He is open to asking high school students to be mentors, as well.Richard Gordon at a glanceAge: 80.Family: Wife, Cecilia, of 59 years; three children; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.Resident of the Lodi-Stockton area for four years. Formerly lived... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Choir members gather to sing their old songs Jul 26, 2009
They gathered programs of performances, compiling a list of songs they had once sung and spent hours assembling packets of sheet music for each attendee to the reunion. And they sent out the invitation to the list they had made. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Announcing Star Wars: In Concert Jul 24, 2009
For the first time ever, pages from John Williams' original hand-written sheet music for Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace will be exhibited for the public. Also on display will be various never-before-seen props from the films, including blasters and helmets from Coruscant, Tatooine and other iconic Star Wars locations. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
New Mozart piano music found Jul 24, 2009
The sheet music had been found by staff at the city's library, and authenticated as the work of Mozart in September 2008. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Europe)
Indicting the Usual Suspects Jul 20, 2009
There was a time, after all, when most American kids were actually given music lessons and learned how to play an actual instrument, and even saved up their allowance to buy sheet music. Whenever the slide began, in the months since Obama was crowned, weve slid faster and further than I would have dreamed possible. (Townhall.com)
Own a piece of Hawaii history Jul 20, 2009
More contemporary items, including Matson ocean liner menus, hula dancer figurines, sheet music and postcards from the 20th century, are also part of the collection ... More affordable items in the collection include a 1959 passenger list from the SS Matsonia for $50 and sheet music from around the 1940s for $75. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Audience gets glimpse into life of Josephine Baker Jul 18, 2009
During World War II, she fled France but because of her fame, she participated in the French Underground by carrying messages in her sheet music and obtaining information. After the war, she received the Croix de Guerre, the Rosette de la Resistance and was made a Chevalier of the Legion d honneur. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
MY NEW YORK: JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER Jul 13, 2009
"When I was a little girl coming into the city to audition for Broadway shows, Colony Music was the place you would go to get all your sheet music and CDs. I loved going through the music there. It's a very nostalgic store for me.". 2. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Kindle the Muse: Sheet Music Now Available For Download Jul 13, 2009
This marks the first time that a comprehensive collection of sheet music is being offered for this exciting new medium. "This is a wonderful boon to musicians who want instant access to a vast library of in-demand sheet music," said Kim Lorz, CEO of , Inc. "In addition to the convenient and comprehensive content selection we offer, musicians never have to fumble through paper scores or worry about forgetting a piece of music; it's all there in the Kindle." ... The company's digital sheet music... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Frenchtown pays tribute to Bagnell Jul 9, 2009
"The greatest tribute we can give him is to emulate his way of making life better for those around him. We love you, Lyle, and we will always remember you. God bless you and thank you." The man was remarkable in his ability to duplicate a song heard once; he couldn't read sheet music. He was also remarkable for his sense of humor notably his one-liners, even if some of them were two-liners. (Montana Standard, MT)
A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com... Jul 9, 2009
One other bit of news: FreeHand Systems Inc. of Los Altos announced it was making digital sheet music for more than 20,000 songs available for the Kindle. The catalog includes songs from Bach to Beethoven and Stephen Foster to George M. Cohan. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Lyle Bagnell: A powerful voice - More than 1,000 pay tribute to longtime announcer of Broncs Jul 8, 2009
The man was remarkable in his ability to duplicate a song heard once; he couldn't read sheet music. He was also remarkable for his sense of humor notably his one-liners, even if some of them were two-liners. (Missoulian, MT)
Jacksons finances far from settled Jul 2, 2009
Music publishing has thrived even as CD sales plummeted: Publishers make money when a song they control is sold; performed (including on the radio); incorporated into an ad, movie, or TV show; or printed on anything from sheet music to T-shirts. Other writers whose work Sony/ATV owns or administers include Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell, Willie Nelson, Wyclef Jean, Kraftwerk and Diane Warren. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Three Questions: Keith Cerny Jun 28, 2009
Company: Sheet Music Plus, Emeryville. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
New look for Centre Court, new look for Federer Jun 23, 2009
All Wimbledon Trigam music titles for brass and band are available at Sheet Music Plus. Great prices, great service. (Yahoo News)
Hal Leonard, Music Sales start new venture Jun 23, 2009
Europe's largest sheet music publisher has entered into a joint venture with Milwaukee's to expand distribution of Music Sales' publications in North America. The transaction expands the relationship between the two companies, which currently operate an Internet joint venture to sell sheet music online ... Through the new joint venture, called Music Sales America, Hal Leonard, the world's largest sheet music publisher, will exclusively distribute publications produced by Music Sales Group, with... (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
McKinney Guitar Studio hosts concerts in support of student scholarships Jun 20, 2009
She started by learning to read sheet music and said her favorite song to play is Hot Cross Buns. Hayden's mom Stacie Tucker said, "Playing the guitar and practicing at home has taught Hayden a lot of commitment and dedication.". (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Hal Leonard buys Shawnee Press Jun 20, 2009
Milwaukee sheet music publisher said Thursday that it has purchased , one of the top publishers of choral and instrumental music. Shawnee is based in Nashville and since 1989 had been operating as an independent subsidiary of Music Sales Corp., the U.S. publishing arm of the Music Sales Group. (Milwaukee Business Journal, WI)
From Gutenberg to Grisham Jun 19, 2009
There s Robert McCloskey s 1940 sketchbook for Make Way for Ducklings, complete with smudge prints; the original sheet music to Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1908); and a 600-year-old page from an illuminated manuscript, still resplendent in gold leaf. The BPL has holdings of 14 million items, including 20,000 music scores, a schematic of the Boston Massacre drawn by Paul Revere, hand-written slave narratives, and the entire 35,000-book personal library of John Adams, intact. (Boston Globe)
Famous Missourians coming to Bonne Terre Jun 17, 2009
This allowed her to participate in the French Underground by smuggling secrets to the resistance in her sheet music. Despite all this fame, she was never accepted in the United States because of her race. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
BACKSTAGE: Playhouse plans 'Bonnie and Clyde' musical Jun 16, 2009
McLane's same-set design, featuring walls of gently fluttering sheet music, won the Outstanding Set Design award in January from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. And the Broadway revival of "Hair," which won for Best Revival of a Musical, has a local actor in its Broadway cast ---- Josh Lamon, a 1999 graduate of Poway High School. (North County Times)
Ex-Gator bolts for Tennessee Jun 5, 2009
And you can bring defensive tackle John Brown, the former Gator-turning-Volunteer after a short stop at Northeast Mississippi Junior College the sheet music to Rocky Top. Even Brown acknowledged the unusual move in a conversation with rivals. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
South weathers commencement Jun 5, 2009
Band members had trouble keeping hold of their sheet music in the strong winds. Valedictorian Reese Leatherman gave a speech on Extra Innings. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Memories vivid, hope strong: Prayer, praise as Parkersburg looks forward writeLink("vid_id=1582&file=pburgmemorial052509.flv"); May 27, 2009
The discovery on Eckhoff's basement steps of someone's sheet music for "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" also brought reassurance, Lyons said. "He's got it in control. He's got it in his hands," Lyons said. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
