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Australian Music News Highlights

Monday 20 February, 2012

Record labels and musicians have lost a bid to recover extra copyright payments from radio stations for music simultaneously streamed over the internet and traditional radio transmitters.

Cricketer Bret Lee is trying to enrich the lives of Indian children who earn their living picking through the filth in the country's rubbish tips by funding a series of music centres that teach song and dance.

Harry Angus, creator of the GWS Giants team theme song that they hope will resonate in Sydney's west says the song is the perfect way to show off the sport's curious love affair with oompah-band music.

New research finds listeners judge symphonic music differently when they’re told the gender of the conductor.

An international panel of music experts has dismissed the Sydney Opera House as "filled with performing spaces with problematic sound" while the Melbourne Recital Centre won praise for its rich and reverberant sound as well as its architectural design.

Vale Don Cornelius (1973–2012), the smooth-voiced television host and creator of Soul Train, one of the longest-running syndicated shows in television. Vale Tonmi Lillman (1936–2012), drummer with Finnish monster rock ensemble Lordi. Vale Clive Shakespeare (1949–2012), a founding member of the 1970s Australian band Sherbet

Others in the news this week:
Adele, Lieven Bertels, Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton, Sofia Coppola, Brett Dean, Gotye, Whitney Houston, Husky,Norah Jones, Katie Melua, Men In Suits, Lana Del Rey, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Lucy Warren

Anniversaries this week:
B: 1842–Arrigo Boito, Italian composer (d. 1918);1932–Michel Legrand, French composer.
D: 1552–Heinrich Faber, German composer (b. before 1500); 1572–Pierre Certon, French composer (b ca. 1510-1520); 1682–Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639); 1992–Pierre Dervaux, French conductor, composer and pedagogue (b. 1917); 2002–Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
 
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