The Birgit Nilsson Foundation said it would begin awarding a $1 million prize, which it is calling the largest such prize in classical music.

A $1 million classical music prize has been established to commemorate the late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson.

YouTube announced this week that it has partnered with independent music branding and music licensing agency Rumblefish to let YouTube users add Rumblefish content to their videos.

Enter the new Grammy Museum and run head-on into 160 musical genres; photos and footage from 50 years of awards ceremonies; historic costumes and instruments; plus dozens of interactive displays that illuminate popular music’s origins and cultural impact through the decades.

The late Swedish soprano Birgit Nilsson will be commemorated through the establishment of a $1 million classical music prize.

A New York animator and lighting technical director eschews a video camera and instead takes 45,000 photographs with his Nikon D200 DSLR and stitches them together to create a music video.

When big chains stop selling music, where will casual music fans turn to make impulse buys?

Techdirt thinks that it’s a bad idea to require U.S. universities to pay a blanket license for their students’ music downloads from file-sharing services. Here’s why I disagree.

It’s another edition of two-time best podcast of the year international champion Music Weekly! And what a lot we have in store for you … Robert Wyatt patron of prog, leftie of Lincolnshire, and all-round avant-garde hero invites Rosie Swash into his beautiful home to talk about his life in music, his denial of all vices and how he remains an unclassifiable musician. Emmy the Great …

Enter the new Grammy Museum and run head-on into 160 musical genres; photos and footage from 50 years of awards ceremonies; historic costumes and instruments; plus dozens of interactive displays that illuminate popular music’s origins and cultural impact through the decades.

Music and games are the most sought-after programs of 2008 for hot-selling iPhone and iPod Touch devices, Apple said on Wednesday.

“The Sound of Music” has faded in the Austrian city of Salzburg, which has blocked plans to turn the original von Trapp family villa portrayed in the Hollywood favourite into a hotel, says the company behind the idea.

“The Sound of Music” has faded in the Austrian city of Salzburg, which has blocked plans to turn the original von Trapp family villa portrayed in the Hollywood favorite into a hotel, says the company behind the idea.

Ever since Apple’s iTunes store launched in 2003, the digital music market has received an annual Christmas gift in the form of a sales boost, as consumers unwrap new iPods and gift cards for the holidays.

Mr. Karas was a musician and teacher who sought out the music and stories of composers from a Nazi concentration camp.

On Monday night at Waltz-Astoria, the Lost Dog New Music Ensemble presented music by eight Sequenza 21 composers from throughout the United States, France and the Netherlands.

Ever since Apple’s iTunes store launched in 2003, the digital music market has received an annual Christmas gift in the form of a sales boost, as consumers unwrap new iPods and gift cards for the holidays.

Music and browsing mashup Songbird has kicked the remnants of its shell to the curb, and the program’s main emphasis as a music browser couldn’t be more clear.

The Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s A Little Night Music officially opens Dec. 3 following previews that began Nov. 22. The limited engagement is scheduled to play through March 8, 2009.

To kick off Motown Records’ 50th anniversary year, on Jan. 13 the popular “Now That’s What I Call Music” music series is releasing “Now That’s What I Call Motown,” a collection of 25 of the top Motown songs of all time.

DENVER (Billboard) - Ever since Apple's iTunes store launched in 2003, the digital music market has received an annual Christmas gift in the form of a sales boost, as consumers unwrap new iPods and gift cards for the holidays.

Police have located up to one million illegal Asian movies and music discs in south western Sydney - the largest ever collection of pirate music and Asian movies seized in Australia. NSW Police alleg

Justin Roberts has wildly curious young fans, the type who might lean into a live monitor during one of his concerts just to see what it sounds like. But the popular children’s entertainer knows a blast of loud music isn’t the only risk to a child’s hearing. What parents and kids really need to watch is the everyday use of earbuds that come with iPods and other MP3 players, said Roberts, who has …

Music merchandisers weren’t sharing the general optimism of most retailers during Thanksgiving weekend.

Digital music sales account for 18 percent of the U.S. music market and that figure will grow to 41 percent in five years, Forrester Research said in a report released on Monday.

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) — YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc. , announced an online classical-music contest whose winners will gather at New Yorks Carnegie Hall and perform a specially written orchestral work.

A boldly scored, four-movement violin concerto dubbed “The Lost Art of Letter Writing” has won Australian composer Brett Dean the 2009 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.

Since the beginning of TV, music programming has been an integral part of the success of the medium, from Your Hit Parade to American Bandstand, The Ed Sullivan Show and Soul Train, and finally to MTV, a network initially predicated on marketing music in short-form video bits 24/7. Music Programming TV Plays Music in New Ways . . . More BET Looks Ahead . . . More …

After eight years of bringing musical talent to the city beach, the Riviera Beach Music Festival has gone silent, but it might not be dead just yet.

Sexually explicit music video clips including one which shows a naked Britney Spears rolling around in a sauna should be classified and restricted in a similar way to movies, the State Government said

It is not every day that you get invited to a launch party with Coldplay, The Police and Elton John. But today being World Aids Day, you can join the performers and a clutch of other world-famous music stars at red.msn.com , for the launch of (RED)Wire, a new musical venture from the (RED) charitable initiative, which aims to halt the spread of Aids in Africa with the help of major consumer …

Holiday music provides an escape. This year, especially, with a roller-coaster economy added to the holiday rush, music can offer a much-needed getaway - often for little or no expense.

Artists as diverse as Sir Elton John and Jay-Z will offer world exclusive songs through a new music service to help fight Aids in Africa.

Men charged for allegedly trying to steal expensive guitar from uptown music store

Poor and isolated, Cuba is crumbling. Can music save it?

The leader of the Hackberry Ramblers for more than six decades, Luderin Darbone was a fine fiddle player and, more importantly, one of the great innovators in Cajun music.

The first ever MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA) exploded into passionate life on Saturday, November 22, 2008 at The Velodrome in Abuja, Nigeria. Created by MTV’s African music channel, MTV base, the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain was conceived as the ultimate celebration of African contemporary music and talent.

Thriving nightclubs, popular festivals and favorite sons like Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughan have given Austin a well-deserved, if boastful, moniker: Live Music Capital of the World. But the

NEW YORK - To record his third studio CD, Jason Mraz withdrew from the music industry so he wouldn’t be affected by album sales and charts.

NEW YORK - For Daniel Barenboim, music and politics meld together.

Contemporary art and music have always had their detractors. Orchestras don’t program a lot of atonal music and avant garde art takes a back seat to the old masters in most museums. But in Cleveland, a collaboration between the Cleveland Orchestra and the Museum of Contemporary Art has opened ears, eyes, and minds. WKSU’s Vivian Goodman reports.

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R&B singer Chris Brown swept the American Music Awards on Sunday, winning three prizes including artist of the year.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Kanye West had nothing to complain about Sunday, as he picked up his first-ever American Music Awards and delivered a flawless, if subdued, performance of his new single, “Heartless.”

Two Nigerian singers won top awards Saturday as MTV held its first-ever music award program for Africa, with acts from across the world’s poorest continent being nominated for prizes.

UPDATED AT 11:30 P.M.: LOS ANGELES — Kanye West had nothing to complain about Sunday, as he picked up his first-ever American Music Awards trophy and delivered a flawless, if subdued, performance of his new single, “Heartless.”

Mary Lou Weinrich recently found herself with more elementary school students interested in music than she had instruments for, so she reached out to an untapped resource.

LOS ANGELES | Kanye West had nothing to complain about Sunday, as he picked up his first-ever American Music Awards.

Kanye West offered his award to Lil Wayne; Chris Brown was named Artist of the Year over Coldplay and Alicia Keys; and more, from the American Music Awards.

CHRIS BROWN stole the show at Sunday’s (23Nov08) 2008 American Music Awards after scooping three major gongs, trailed by KANYE WEST, ALICIA KEYS and RIHANNA, who all walked …

Hard or Soft Rock? There is no doubt that men and women have different tastes in music. Inanother edition of HeSaid/She Said, Don Nelson and Michelle Edmonds spent the morning with ”Pete and Joe” from J-105 to search for some answers. With the help of theirlisteners they determined that men and women are wired differently when it comes tomusical tastes.