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Local director Pamela Corker presents her debut feature film, a light-hearted exploration of the musical genre known, often with little fondness, as Muzak. The story centers on Burt, a trumpeter whose work is only appreciated tangentially in elevators and barbershops. He has aspirations of playing professional jazz, but is unable to come to grips with natural flair for nerdiness. A miracle arrives in the form of Linda, who admires his playing and eventually allows him to embrace his EZ listening roots. Tickets $9. 7:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline...
...expected to direct your full attention to the action. Why don’t we commit the same level of attention to recorded music, or food? Seems to me that as soon as you start playing music in the background, it becomes elevator music—glorified muzak...
...MBTA briefly experimented with playing festive Muzak over the P.A. system in 1989, and by 1993 the organization was looking into placing cable televisions in the subway—a prospect that would have made musical performance virtually impossible...
...earlier this year with Shapes - pop reworkings of classics by Beethoven, Bach, Elgar and Albinoni. When his album launched BBC Worldwide's Inversion label, rivals feared the label's built-in media access would mean unfair playtime. Sales might have more to do with model looks than the inoffensive muzak. Commercial potential: $$$$ Artistry: ... Tony Henry...
Tired of stale movies and staticky Muzak on those long, dull airplane rides? Song Airways, a new cut-rate carrier operated by Delta Air Lines, plans to offer flyers a much needed upgrade of in-flight entertainment...