The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Hindemith, Paul
He was trained in Germany, in Italy and at Yale University in the United States where, during a one-year scholarship in 1950, he studied composition under Paul Hindemith. He also was a student of pianist Walter Gieseking and organist Fernando Germani ... German composer Paul Hindemith emigrated to America in 1940, and wrote his most famous work, Symphonic Metamorphosis on a Theme by Carl Maria von Weber, in 1943 while teaching at Yale University. Contrary to the title, Hindemith actually treats ... The program includes The Oceanides by Jean Sibelius, Symphonic Metamorphosis on a Theme by Carl Maria von Weber by Paul Hindemith and Stravinsky’s Circus Polka: Composed for a Young Elephant . The NJSO adopted Coming to America as its theme for ... He was trained in Germany, in Italy and at Yale University in the United States where, during a one-year scholarship in 1950, he studied composition under Paul Hindemith. He also was a student of pianist Walter Gieseking and organist Fernando Germani ... One 1965 clip with the New Philharmonia Orchestra shows him conducting the "Lullaby” and "Finale” from "The Firebird.” Another composer/conductor was Paul Hindemith . He can be seen conducting his "Concert Music for Strings and Brass” in an ... ... landed a scholarship to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He also attended the Juilliard School of Music in New York City and Yale University, where he had gone primarily to study composition with the well-known composer Paul Hindemith. ... I haven't had time to assimilate Tsontakis's Violin Concerto No. 2 , recently released on Enja (Saint Paul Chamber ... Shostakovich, Violin Concertos (Naive); Zehetmair Quartett: Bartók/Hindemith (ECM New Series); Hakan Hardenberger: "The Art of ... These stand very much in the wake of Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra (1943), one of that composer’s most accessible pieces, and they also reveal some echoes of Roy Harris and Paul Hindemith, with whom Mr. Lewin once studied. In other words ... Paul Hindemith wrote sonatas for every conceivable instrument, even the marching band version of the French horn known as the mellophone. But Hindemith was himself a violist and reserved much of his most profound writing for his own axe. Mr. Carpenter ... Fetler, a stocky, gray-haired and craggily handsome man, grew up musically at a time when heart and soul were not exactly high on the list of qualities espoused by composers or his mentors - who included Paul Hindemith, Quincy Porter and Boris Blacher
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