Tag: streaming

  • Conrad Tao Performs Rzewski’s Epic Protest Work

    Conrad Tao Performs Rzewski’s Epic Protest Work

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    Live from his New York City apartment, the pianist Conrad Tao on March 25 performed The People United Will Never Be Defeated, Frederic Rzewski’s epic set of 36 variations on the 1973 Chilean protest song.

  • Streaming Classical Music Concerts: The Menu Grows

    Streaming Classical Music Concerts: The Menu Grows

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    Brian Wise
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    At a recent lunch for news media in New York, Hervé Boissière, the president and founder of the French concert-streaming service Medici.tv, showed off the beta version of his company’s new website. Gone was the old homepage dominated by a ginormous video player, which automatically started playing upon arrival (forcing you frantically reach for the pause button and/or…