Music groups challenge US Internet copyright rule (America’s Network)

Music groups challenge US Internet copyright rule (America’s Network)
A wide array of US broadcasters and online companies challenged a ruling from a panel of copyright judges that they say could cripple the emerging business of offering music broadcasts over the Internet, an Associated Press report said.

Students prepare to stage ?Music Man? (The Sentinel)

Students prepare to stage ?Music Man? (The Sentinel)
As the piano plays, the cast members of ?The Music Man? spread across the stage in the Cumberland Valley High School auditorium, their feet pounding the floor as they sing about the joys of the ?Wells Fargo Wagon.?

Brendel brilliantly true to the music (Contra Costa Times)

Brendel brilliantly true to the music (Contra Costa Times)
It was an astonishing moment — toward the end of his solo recital Sunday afternoon at Zellerbach Hall, pianist Alfred Brendel, playing the central Adagio movement of Mozart’s K. 457 Piano Sonata in C minor, seemed to immerse himself completely in the music. The nearly 2,000 people in the crowd might simply have vanished; the building itself could have crumbled into dust. It was just Brendel and …