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  • According to Comedy Album ‘2776,’ the Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth

    '2776' is the new musical comedy album from writers Rob Kutner and the Levinson brothers. The premise: it’s the 1000th birthday of America, and an evil alien is threatening to destroy the U.S. unless the president and his secret service agent can prove that the country is worth saving. '2776' features more than 80 comedians, musicians and actors who got together to record songs about this crazy place we call home.
  • Hollywood Film Composer Lior Rosner Releases Classical Album ‘Awake and Dream’ on Bridge Records

    Lior Rosner is a television, film and classical music composer who recently released his first classical album, 'Awake and Dream,' on Bridge Records.
  • San Francisco Symphony Releases Live Recording of ‘West Side Story’ Concert Performance with Broadway Stars Cheyenne Jackson and Alexandra Silber

    Ready for a return visit to the turf of the Sharks and Jets? The San Francisco Symphony is betting that you are, with a new live recording of the first-ever concert performances of Bernstein's complete score to 'West Side Story.'
  • Classicalite Recording News: Conductor Kent Nagano’s Daughter, Pianist Karin Kei Nagano, Debuts on Canada's Analekta

    The Montreal Gazette has reported on a notable new release from the Analekta label, one of the leading Canadian recording companies. The reason that it will be of especial interest to some casual observers is that the pianist showcased on it is one Karin Kei Nagano--the 15-year-old daughter of Kent, revered chief conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
  • Classicalite Recording News: Extreme Mozart Opera Recordings from Teodor Currentzis on Sony Classical

    No compromise operas, an exciting-sounding concept. They say that the creation of art is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. Conductor Teodor Currentzis clearly believes this to be so, or at the very least that they must come together.
  • Classicalite Recording News: Smithsonian Folkways Re-Releasing All 'UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music' Titles

    Care of Washington, D.C.'s most favored (and revered) archivist label, the full UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music will see the material world for the first time since 2005. Yes, indeed, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is re-releasing this entire catalog...
  • Great Voices Denyce Graves, Shenyang Feature in Milt Okun's Tribute to John Denver

    'Great Voices Sing: John Denver' also features Plácido Domingo, Rod Gilfry, Daniel Montenegro, Danielle de Niese and René Pape, among many others. Each artist was allowed to choose which classic Denver tune he or she wished to sing; unbelievably, no two artists chose...
  • Classicalite Recording News: The Decca Sound Dead in the U.S. as Universal Music Classics is Born

    How to interpret the news that Universal is to drop the Decca company name in the United States? The first thing to say is that it's not as bad as it looks at first glance. The second thing is that, in fact, it might even indicate that...
  • Classicalite Recording News: Indie Labels Granted Reprieve After Codaex U.K. Bust

    Lately, there's been some good news in the troubled world of classical music record companies and distributors--still reeling from the changes in listening (and buying) patterns.
  • Producer Jon M. Samuels on Sony's 41-CD Box Set 'Vladimir Horowitz--Live at Carnegie Hall' [AUDIO]

    Anyone who thinks that putting together these enormous box sets of great artists of yesteryear is simply a matter of grabbing some old recordings, putting them in a shiny new box and bunging them out at an expensive (well, sometimes)
  • Classicalite Recording News: Universal, Sony, Warner and More Join Law Suit Against SiriusXM Satellite Radio

    SiriusXM has been hit by a combined lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles by the big beast record companies. Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Capitol Records and the indie company ABKCO Music & Records, Inc...
  • Classicalite Recording News: Debussy Google Doodle Causes Upsurge in CD Sales

    A rather lovely story from the good fellas at Google. Their recent Google Doodle marking the anniversary of Debussy's birth (his 151st, since you ask) was a hit for the classical recording industry...
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