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...Combine the recent advances in technology and the booming Internet economy with a prodigious amount of musical talent, and you get Teenage Hysteria, the first album of Sean Bennett '01, which is currently topping the classical charts on MP3.com...
...Approached by a producer from MP3.com after one of his performances during the summer, Bennett read up on the site and decided to compile a number of recordings made during his teenage years into an album. With a 30-hour repertoire of music to choose from, Bennett attempted to include a varied mix of classical music, including pieces from the contemporary, Baroque and Romantic periods...
...Teenage Hysteria is not only an audio CD but can also be played as a CD-ROM which features a video presentation, photographs of Sean, the liner notes and each of the eight tracks in MP3 format. Visitors to www.mp3.com/Sean can also download samples from Teenage Hysteria. Bennett believes that downloadable music is transforming what historically has been a very political industry. "By having the option of putting out a downloadable song for most everybody, it really makes it more of a free-market system. Ultimately it will insure that those musicians who do have the most to bring...
...MP3.com allows Bennett to track how many albums he has sold and from where they were purchased. He is often amazed by the different geographic locations of his customers, and attributes this to MP3.com being a truly global site. He also receives more email now than he used to and attempts to respond to each personally...
...Bennett's first exposure to music was from his mother, who taught him how to play piano by ear. At the age of five, he did a rearrangement of "It's a Small World" with his tape recorder, inserting other Disney music into the catchy tune and rewriting the words. His arrangement won him a prize in a Disney-sponsored contest, and, more importantly, showed him that music was to be a huge part of his life...