Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
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- Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
- Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist
- Music Review | Early Music New York
- Doctor (and former Danbury resident) fights cancer with rock ‘n’ roll
- Making music
Guitar Hero and Rock Band try to drum up new players
Los Angeles Times
The makers of the video games plan to release versions targeting discrete music genres to help boost stagnant sales. By Alex Pham March 16 2009The Guitar Hero and Rock Band video games have become huge hits generating $1. 6 billion in North American sales last year from players who love jamming along with music legends. But now customers may be singing an old blues classic: “The Thrill Is Gone. “After surging 68% in 2008 sales of music games are expected to be stagnant this year.
Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist
New York Times
liveira who turns 34 on Tuesday is the son of Jair Rodrigues one of Brazil’s most celebrated samba singers. He became a child television star on the program “Balão Mággico” (“Magic Balloon”) and in its associated pop group the Magic Balloon Gang before he was 12. He went on to study music and production at the Berklee School of Music in Boston before returning to a career as songwriter producer and singer in Brazil. The music-school techniques showed in Mr. liveira’s most distinctive songs. His set on Saturday began with compositions that were full of musicianly convolutions like the odd meter and gnarled jazz chords of “Contigo Sempre” all packed into syncopated guitar patterns that he delivered with quick-fingered ease. In their harmonies some songs suggest a Brazilian answer to.
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Music Review | Early Music New York
New York Times
The program “Capricious Extravagance” brought together colorful scores composed for the Austrian court in the 17th and early 18th centuries including the one that gave the concert its name Carlo Farina’s “Capriccio Stravagante” (1627). The 26 short movements of Farina’s suite for strings are meant to show off a particular kind of virtuosity: not speed or flashy ornamentation but an ability to mimic. Trumpets are approximated in a simple chordal fanfare and the guitar (no surprise here) is imitated in a pizzicato section. Animals are attempted as well: the cat for example was heard first as descending slide on a single violin with more violins and violas joining in a chorus. An ouverture (or suite) by Johann Joseph Fux from around 1700 mixed similar if more stylized tone painting (birds in this case) among more conventional dance movements. And in Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s “Fechtschule” (“Fencing School” 1668) courtly dances gave way to an earthy evocation of the work’s title and an equally vivid “Barber’s Aria. ” Included as well were a zesty sonata from Georg Muffat’s “Armonico Tributo” (1682) and Heinrich Biber’s Serenada (from around 1670) in which a vocal movement (a “Night Watchman’s Song”) is interposed amid the dances.
Doctor (and former Danbury resident) fights cancer with rock ‘n’ roll
Danbury News Times
or cranking out tunes on the stage. By day Nagarsheth is a gifted surgeon and physician a man who cherishes his calling to save lives. By night Nagarsheth sheds his scrubs and his scalpel and trades them in for a drum kit and a guitar. “Music has always been a passion of mine ever since I was a child” said Nagarsheth who also practices at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey. “But to be honest with you I didn’t really develop an interest in medicine until I went to college. “nce you’re in medicine it really changes your life. It’s all-encompassing” Nagarsheth added.
Making music
BBC News
Here neuroscientist Gregory Berns believes everyone should learn to play music. When I say make music that means sing play an instrument or simply bang out a rhythm by whatever means that are available to you. I do not mean computer games like Guitar Hero. It doesn’t matter whether you have talent or if you think you’re tone deaf – the simple act of producing a rhythmic or harmonious statement teaches us skills that so often fall by the wayside in modern life.
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