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...Amazon. Their label expects sales of the album to triple in the next week. The pair is gearing up for a U.S. tour: Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought - Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring...
...fall, when Once was still in theaters, the Swell Season's record label launched another tour that rolled into Once's DVD release in December. "The film drove the album from the beginning," says Jack Hedges, marketing manager for Canvasback Music, the Sony BMG imprint that released the album. "But unlike most soundtracks, we had living, breathing musicians. These weren't actors who were singing songs." Rather than utilizing Top 40 radio or expensive TV ads, the label relied on the old-school marketing techniques of touring and press to sell their way to a gold record...
...jazz bands, has won the 2008 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award, according to a press release from the University. The award—which includes a $10,000 honorarium awarded through the Office for the Arts at Harvard—was established in 1986 in memory of Vosgerchian, a late music professor. “There is a still a surreal feeling,” Everett said. “I am very honored to be associated with her.” Everett, a bass trombonist, has had an accomplished career, playing with the Bolshoi Ballet, the Boston Pops...
...stop shooting for one-act shows and opt for less famous but more interesting artists. Last spring’s Mates of State concert in the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was well-attended and fun, proving that even Harvard students are capable of appreciating good music in an intimate setting. Either way, the minute fraction of the student body on the CEB should not be the only people able to voice their partialities. If the CEB (hopefully) opens their ears to undergraduate feedback, perhaps they should also open students’ ears to the music of their...
...prolonged applause, New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel took to a podium in Pyongyang. And as he stood in front of a standing room only audience of about 1,400 people, it became clear quickly that the evening would be one of rare power and emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the entire audience rose as both nations' anthems were played. From that point on, for the next two hours, it was hard to remember that during the bus ride that afternoon, the members of the orchestra and the journalists accompanying...