Dance
Collateral Damage: Where Will Copyright Law Get Us to Next...Nowhere?
81 Can Wait: James Inverne's Tribute to Maestro Claudio Abbado (1933-2014)
They were the words all music-lovers hoped never to hear, though they knew the day was inevitable. Claudio Abbado has passed away. He defied the odds to live a full decade beyond an illness that had looked likely to kill him. In that time, he gave us performance after performance of stunning brilliance. The Column: The Crisis of the United States of America's Classical Recording Scene
What on earth is happening--has already happened, actually--to the North America classical music recordings scene? The self-extraction of yet a famous New York store, J&R, from classical music underlines yet again how dire things have got in the entire region. But just the disappearance of high-street shops doesn't explain it all away.
