The O’Neill Theater Center’s 2008 National Music Theater Conference featuring stagings of Myth, In Transit, Max Understood and Iron Curtain begins June 29.

My opinions about music are as archaic as my ideas about language, manners and work. I despise the contemporary notion that one way of spelling is as good as another, that subject-verb agreement is unimportant, or that the street argot is a reasonable substitute for proper speech.

Six students from the Henderson area will be among the 200 students who were nominated for the 2008 Kentucky Ambassadors of Music tour in Europe.

PRYOR Heavy metal music fans may soon pose problems for Mayes County. With Rocklahoma a four-day festival featuring bands like RATT and L.A. Guns fast-approaching, 911 service officials are trying to remedy phone problems that are caused by the influx of people. During Country Fever earlier this month, the phone lines in Mayes County were jammed as thousands of fans using their cells at …

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Global music sales dropped 8 percent to $19.4 billion in 2007, with CD and DVD sales falling by 13 percent - unmatched by a rise in purchased downloads.

Survey says they want a simple way to pay for music they can own, transport, and swap.

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Warner Music Thailand has launched a new radio station on MSNs Windows Live Messenger aiming to strengthen its position as a music leader amongst Thailands online community. By partnering with MSN,

Round Lake Beach will offer food, music, crafts and carnival attractions as the fourth annual Beach Fest kicks off at 4 p.m. Friday.

A guitar and amplifiers that were stolen from a Rockville Centre music store were recovered on Wednesday by Nassau police, who arrested a Rockville Centre man and charged him with burglary.

Frankly Music, violinist Frank Almonds chamber series, will be back with four programs next season.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - A famous Nicaraguan revolutionary singer-songwriter has asked the government of the Central American country to stop using his music.

Soul and R&B fans were greeted Saturday at Methodist University with a small sign announcing that scheduled performers Mario and Ray J would not be appearing as part of the Stone Soul Music Festival.

After touring the US with the likes of Keith Urban, singer Catherine Britt says she’s disheartened many Australians consider country music “hillbilly” music.

THE GRASS IS BLUER: Wes Perry, playing with the band Hickory Hill, warms up on his mandolin before taking the stage at the Overton Bluegrass Festival on Saturday Overton. This year marked the 20th anniversary of the music festival.

But much of young artists since such made up arrangements became circumspect. Some decided to deviate the principal companies record completely. One of the new hottest names to emerge here this year, the metal coil of praise enter Shikari, refused to sign with whoever and in March released their album of beginning, catch to the skies, on their own Attirent label in an ambush reality. In the past these tiny and alleged labels of indie were usually placed by impatient commanders to buy secretly credibility for their products with a young assistance traditionally being wary of large companies of music. But it is not with the way in which it east Attirent in an ambush reality. The sale of the catch to the skies was mainly in fall with the band themselves, which played almost 700 gigs since the formation in the street Albans in 2003.

Noted neurologist Oliver Sacks has found common ground with the pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church: Both men believe in the healing power of music.

Classical music enthusiasts usually hit their stride from September through May, considered by most musical entities to be prime time for audiences. But just because it’s summer, schools are out, swimming pools are open and amusement parks are at their peak, people don’t stop listening to music. Virginia has a wealth of classical music festivals at venues ranging from schools and churches to ski …

NEW BRUNSWICK:Musica Dolce, an affiliate of the Highland Park Recorder Society, will perform a free concert of “Baroque Music to Lift the Spirit” on Wednesday in the community room of the local library at 60 Livingston Ave.

At events scheduled here Monday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is to officially introduce Riccardo Muti as its music director-designate. Should Muti be asked why he chose to commit here instead of, say, New York, it’s likely he will cite the chance to lead our world-class orchestra and reside in our congenial city.

Prairie State College now offers a new music production and technology program to prepare students for a career in the music and sound industry. PSC is the first community college in the area to offer this program. Two options are available, an associate’s in music production and a certificate in music technology.

A music critic for The Chicago Sun-Times who gave the police the tape that prosecutors say shows R. Kelly, right, having sex with an under-age female must testify at Mr. Kelly?s child pornography trial, a judge ruled Friday. Judge Vincent Gaughan of Cook County Criminal Court ruled that the defense can question the critic, Jim DeRogatis, about what he did with the VHS cassette between the time …

ENTERPRISE - Wearing a blue cap and white T-shirt, Ronnie Gilley shakes hands and shoots the breeze with family, friends and sponsors Friday night during a barbecue at the site of the BamaJam Music & Arts Festival.