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How a scrappy arts group survived the '90s Bang on a Can, a contemporary music organization, fought government cuts with an innovative crowdfunding program. by William Robin (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- “When things are tough all around us, we dream,” composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe wrote in a letter to potential donors in 1996. Bang on a Can, the contemporary music organization they had founded a decade before, had recently lost about a fifth of its budget because of massive cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts. But Gordon, Lang and Wolfe were undeterred. “It’s a Ban...

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Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Billboard Shawn Holiday attends the Billboard 2018 R&B Hip-Hop Power Players event at Legacy Records on Sept. 27, 2018 in New York City. Columbia Records co-head of urban music,  Shawn Holiday, is launching a new label and publishing venture with Irving and Billboard can confirm. He will maintain an A&R capacity role with Columbia. The news was first reported by HITS Daily Double, which noted Holiday will continue to work with Polo G, Chloe x Halle and other artists signed to the label. Holiday also held a dual role at Sony/ATV, where he was named head of urban ...

Share this article NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Music Masterworks today announced the launch of XXIM RECORDS, an all-new imprint focused on the development of innovative, progressive instrumental music around the world. Pronounced 'Twenty-One M', XXIM features a bespoke roster of a new generation of artists whose work explores and integrates neo-classical, post-rock, electronic, and ambient sounds among others. The label is based in Berlin with additional A&R support in New York and arrives with an impressive, international line up of highly talented musicians. It includes c...

(5 out of 5 stars) "I've come to appreciate soundtracks more and more. This compilation progresses chronologically through 60 years of film music, starting with 1939's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", and ending with "Titanic". It encompasses a huge range of styles. Along with the usual suspects - music from "Ben-Hur", "The Magnificent 7", "Star Wars", et al, there are a few real sleepers, like John Barry's medieval-flavored theme to "The Lion in Winter", or Leonard Roseman's lyrical "East of Eden". Blessedly, most of the tracks are original recordings, conducted by the composers, amon...