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[WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook] David Ignatius: Iran & the U.S. | WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom ...: Iranian President Ahmedinejad gave an ultimatum to Barack Obama, saying that if Obama does not make Israel halt nuclear enrichment and open their facilities to international inspections; Iranian airforces will bomb all Nuclear Facilities in Israel.

[Spinner.com] Exploring Kronos Quartet's 'Floodplain': You Didn't Have to Be ...: "That's hard to say," Harrington insists. "For example, there are several tracks on 'Floodplain' that came about first as experiences I heard on recordings, heard something in the sound I thought could be added, like an added element that could be in our music or an instrument we could work with to find a fresh new color."

[Dirty Linen Newsfeed] Morocco's Acclaimed Fès Festival of World Sacred Music Announces ...: The music program is the brainchild of Artistic Director Gerard Kurdjian, whose work has established the festival as most artistic event in Morocco’s cultural calendar. In addition to music lovers, the festival also attracts academics, philosophers and religious leaders who gravitate to each year to the Fès Encounters, a series of meetings organized by International Director Nadia Benjelloun that take on the challenges of modern faith and culture, all set against the backdrop of an ancient city that remains the religious heart of Morocco.

[All About Jazz News] Cyminology: Exploring New Compositional Frontiers: I think, for the listener, it's nice because once you know the CD and then you listen to the music, or the other way around where you listen to the concert then go back to the CD, you suddenly start realizing the details that are there. And the details that are changing slightly because you can still improvise with the sound that you have and make people think that it's composed, but then at the same time knowing there are some composed ideas but it's not [actually] composed.

[bsp.org] DJ Ru weekend continues.Listener Check in..Iran!: The rewind continues with DJ Ru and friends on BSP Radio.  While checking the listener map during a rewind of DJ Ru & The Baraness we had a listener from Iran.  Welcome the middle east.  Tune in tonight @ 7pm est.

[About.com Music Careers: What's Hot Now] Performance Rights Act Redux: Maybe radio stations do need to pay more in fees (although I think it will come at the cost of more consolidation, less diversity and less innovation) but radio stations do provide exposure for the musicians they feature, so they are bringing value to muscians, it may not be enough but value nonetheless… it’s not the one way relationshop that your phrase “at the expense of musicians”

[Koolmuzone: Pakistani Underground Media] Niyaz | Downloads | Koolmuzone: Pakistani Underground Media: After we finished mixing both versions, we realized it would be a shame not to let people hear them.” The result is a rare opportunity to get inside the music, as the acoustic versions reflect the songwriting talents and mystical leanings that Azam and Loga bring; then the “final” versions showcase the organic way Carmen’s electronics fit both the rhythms and the mood of these deeply-rooted works.

[Entertainment] Best entertainment bets for May 15-21 - TwinCities.com: Today: As the Chieftains are to Irish music, as Beausoleil is to Cajun, so is Dastan Ensemble to traditional Persian music. These five men have become Iran's foremost musical ambassadors, transcending the limits of language with extended songs .

[Calcutta Music Blog] Rzewski Plays Rzewski: Piano Works 1975-1999 | Calcutta Music Blog: His musical language is magnetized around simple contrasts,timbral virtuosity and variations on the music materials he selects, as even the "North American Ballads" suggest,which also maintains a fascination over the years.Equally if not more timbrally fascinating are his "Four Pieces" which are not here.Rzewski I beleive is a composer like Stravinsky, he needs something to manipulate that is already formed in the real world,very postmodern in orientation and his music then never claims a magical dimension where moments can synergize amongst/between itself,themselves, as exhibited by his political brethren as Christian Wolff or Luigi Nono. He does however utilize the entire 20th Century piano vocabulary, but is always drawn toward a what we can refer to as Rzewski-esque chromaticism, a dovetailing of the fifth semitone interval, as: c-e-f#-b-Bb-f,something you may find in the piano music of Karol Syzmanowski.

[Entertainment: Home Impact - OregonLive.com] Kronos Quartet thinks, acts globally - OregonLive.com: others are based on popular music from 1940s Egypt and 1970s Iraq. One track was written for Kronos by the Palestinian electronic/hip-hop collective Ramallah Underground (www.ramallahunderground.com), which Kronos founder David Harrington discovered via MySpace.

[Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles] MP3 Music Scavengers Know No Borders: Gossner assembles his finds into hourlong mixes, each collection a strange and captivating trip through forgotten corners of music. A recent “extra funky” mix called “Everybody Get Down” featured the off-kilter psychedelic jam “More Bread to the People” by Action 13, the burbling dance workout “Metalik Funk” by the Mighty Flames, and the spooky breakdown “If You Love Your Neighbour You No Go Die” by Rock Town Express.

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[Richard Prince's Journal-isms RSS Feed] Saberi Set Free From Iranian Prison | The Maynard Institute: KOTA is a subsidiary of Duhamel Broadcasting and in the past has had glimmers of objectivity when it came to its coverage of Native Americans. Helene Duhamel, the nightly news anchor and one of the family owners of the station should know better, but if one watched this station every night for one month these troubling, and I would go so far as to say racist, images would lead off the nightly news nearly 75 percent of the time.

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