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[via Lifehacker] Create Individual Tracks from One Long Concert Track in iTunes
This tutorial article is for all y’all who might not have a lot of audio editing software at your disposal, or not want to learn a new software package. I always wished for a way just to split those live recordings up into compostion chunks easily and directly in iTunes. Little did I know it was there all along. Do remember that in advanced tab of iTunes prefs, you can make the choice to just work in AIFF format as well as MP3 format, as this article discusses.
Meet The Composer’s Soloist Champions Project
March 15, 2008 — Asbury Hall, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
March 19, 2008 — Symphony Space’s Peter Sharp Theater, New York, NY
March 24, 2008 — Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
Late last year, I received a call from Meet The Composer. MTC is, for me, one of the most important organizations present in the classical music field today. Committed to the creation of new work and the visibility of composers and what we’re still calling ‘new music’, for lack of a better term, John Duffie, Heather Hitchens, and now Ed Harsh, the leaders of MTC, have kept its projects alive with new ideas and forward-looking concepts.
This call was from Victoria Roth of MTC, and it was a request to be part of its Soloist Champions program. Funded by a grant from the New York State Music Fund, Soloist Champions was initiated by Meet The Composer in an attempt to recognize and support performers who have long been at the forefront of championing new music.
“Individual performers are the engines of innovation in the new music field,” says MTC President Ed Harsh. “With the Soloist Champions project, Meet The Composer wanted to give eight artists in this key group the resources to amplify their own initiative, to commission composers whose work they believe is rich and powerful.” Read the rest of this entry »
