Favorite digital music in the United Kingdom

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one in five consumers now prefer to download songs legally.

Jakarta (ANTARA News)-according to a survey in the United Kingdom, in United Kingdom Kingdom music connoisseur is now fond of music in digital form.

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) revealed one in five consumers (19.6 percent) now prefer to download songs legally.

Last year, 27.7 percent in the United Kingdom music fans downloading songs from the iTunes store as a digital and Amazon, or listen to it via streaming on YouTube or on Spotify.

The Chief Executive of BPI, Geoff Taylor, said there has been a release through focus for shops that sell the physical album.

"It will continue. We must do everything to please those who are fond of CDs and LPs, "he said, as quoted from the BbC.

Songs from Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" became the most played song on stream by 2012.

"Call Me Maybe" Carly Rae Jepsen is underneath and have watched as many as 3.7 million times in the United Kingdom Kingdom in 2012.

According to the BPI, four out of five consumers have heard of at least one of the service providers of audio streaming.

Meanwhile, a study conducted by Spotify shows Edinburgh became the city's most extensive use of streaming services, followed by Cardiff and Southampton.
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Taking the Sound of Music home

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21 October 2011 Last updated at 23:47 GMT By Bethany Bell BBC News, Salzburg More than half a century after the premiere of one of the world's best-loved musicals, the show is, for the first time, being staged in Salzburg, where it is set - and even now the people of the beautiful baroque city have some misgivings.

How do you solve a problem like The Sound of Music in Salzburg?

The Hollywood film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer has a fanatical following in the English-speaking world.

It tells the true story of Maria the novice nun who sings her way into the hearts of Captain von Trapp and his family - and then flees with them as Austria is annexed to Nazi Germany.

The 1965 film, with its soaring shots of the mountains around Salzburg, attracts thousands of tourists to the city every year.

But many Austrians can't sing a note of it.

The Nazi era remains an uncomfortable subject for some Salzburgers

It's partly because the piece celebrates a Hollywood fantasy vision of Austria. While it may be one of Fraulein Maria's favourite things, no self-respecting Austrian would ever eat schnitzel with noodles - only with potato salad, or possibly with chips.

The movie has rarely been shown on Austrian television, though there has been a stage production in repertory at Vienna's Volksoper since 2005.

Reinhold Wagnleitner, a professor of history at the University of Salzburg, who specialises in American studies, says the movie is not "the real thing".

"It's too syrupy, it's kitsch," he told me.

"It's as if an Austrian author would make a film in German about the Mersey Sound with an Austrian crew in Liverpool and expect the Liverpudlians to think it is a great music film."

Homage to Austria

More sensitive still is the way the piece touches on Austria's Nazi past.

"Doe a deer", as sung by Julie Andrews, is now "Do like the Danube"

For decades Austria claimed to be the first victim of Nazi Germany, but in recent years people have come to acknowledge the extent of Austrian responsibility for the crimes of the Third Reich.

The co-director of the musical at the Salzburger Landestheater, Christian Struppeck says some people in Salzburg still find the issue uncomfortable.

"The Nazi era is part of the show and until today it is a difficult subject, so we have to be careful how we treat this in the show," he says. "But we think it is important that it is in there."

Even the star of the show, Uwe Kroeger, who plays, Captain von Trapp, had never seen the movie.

"It's a strange journey for me because I was never intrigued," he told me.

"I always liked the story but I never really liked the music, or I wasn't really into it until we actually now rehearsed it and I watched the movie.

"And when you see the movie for the first time, the first images of the mountains, it is like an homage to Salzburg and this country - it's beautiful. And I actually cried a little bit, because I thought why didn't I watch it before?"

City of Mozart

The directors have confidence in the musical, and have aimed this production squarely at a local audience.

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Original English:

Edelweiss, edelweiss / Ev'ry morning you greet me / Small and white / Clean and bright / You look happy to meet me

Blossom of snow / May you bloom and grow / Bloom and grow forever / Edelweiss, edelweiss / Bless my homeland forever

German version translated back into English:

Edelweiss, edelweiss / Shine for me like the stars / Light and small / Clear and pure / Just as if you liked me

Let your snow white / Pointed (petals) bloom / Bloom on all paths / Edelweiss, edelweiss / Be a blessing for the homeland

It has been translated into German. "Doe, a deer, a female deer," has now become "Do, so wie der Donaustrom," which translates as "Do, like the Danube river" - something English speakers could find disconcerting.

A couple of plot details have also been changed. The von Trapp family no longer escapes over the mountains into Switzerland, because everyone here knows that if you climb over the mountains near Salzburg, you end up in Germany.

But that still may not be enough to make this a hit.

Reinhold Wagnleitner says the piece isn't necessarily to local taste.

"Christopher Plummer referred to the film as the Sound of Mucus, and that explains a little bit in why the Austrians wouldn't be interested in the film so much," he told me.

"Salzburgers prefer to think of their city as the city of Mozart."

Wandering through the Mirabell Gardens, where Do Re Mi was filmed, a Salzburg couple was guardedly polite.

"I have heard it was a musical many years ago, but I have never seen it," the man said. "It seems to be quite popular in the United States. But many Austrians have never seen it."

His companion agreed. "I don't know it because I'm not English," she said. But I like music so maybe I will like the piece."

The people of Salzburg still have to be convinced about The Sound of Music, but this production might be a very good place to start.

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Country music and economic woes

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27 September 2011 Last updated at 02:53 GMT By Paul Adams BBC News, Connecticut The depth and enduring nature of US economic woes has proved fertile ground for country musicians (Video by David Botti)

It's known for tackling some of life's grittier issues, among them loss, poverty and nostalgia. But today's country music lyrics are turning to the effects of economic hardship.

Country music and hard times. A cliche perhaps, but try telling that to legions of fans across the United States, many of whom are on the frontlines of economic struggles, seeking solace in the music.

Fans like 53-year-old Jim Yocius, from Windsor, Connecticut.

"For the first time in my life, I feel very vulnerable," he says outside the Comcast Theatre in Hartford, before a concert by Country star Toby Keith.

Barbecue smoke drifts over serried ranks of pickup trucks as fans enjoy pre-concert tailgate parties.

"I feel like that older white male who did everything right, and now I feel like the next generation really wants me gone," he says.

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I work sun-up to sun-down, Ain't too proud to sweep the floors, Bank has started calling, And the wolves are at my door”

End Quote From Cost of Livin' by Ronnie Dunn The music helps him by, especially Ronnie Dunn's latest hit, Cost of Livin', which describes an unemployed man's painful search for any kind of work.

"It gives me a spiritual lift, bizarrely enough, to hear that song and just go 'All right, pick it up, shut up, suck up and get going again'."

Hunt for work

Across the car park, it's the same message over and over.

"They know. They know what's happening," says Sandra Scavetta, a former insurance agent from Oakdale who lost her job when the recession took hold and who finds herself, on the wrong side of 50, looking in vain for work.

When Sandra first heard Ronnie Dunn's song, it brought a sharp pang of recognition.

"That's me. That's exactly me. When I first heard it, I got chills. It's exactly where we are."

When Toby Keith hits the stage, the crowd roars its appreciation for Made In America, a tale of patriotism and productivity under threat in the heartland.

The song hits back against a sense of moral and physical decline, and the audience - white, working class and proud - loves it.

American lives

Made in America and Cost of Livin' are just two of the most successful recent songs that address the country's economic woes. The past three years have thrown up a host of others, including John Rich's Shuttin' Detroit Down and Hank Williams Jr's savage Red, White and Pink Slip Blues.

Toby Keith: 'I don't write for Donald Trump'

On the tour bus, Toby Keith doesn't philosophise about his music. But he knows exactly who it's for.

"That's the person I'm singing to; that man and woman that live in that class," he says.

"I don't sit down and write a song and think I'm going to write it for Donald Trump. I don't get out of bounds very often and write about stuff I don't know about," says the former Oklahoma oil derrick hand and semi-professional football player.

Keith says Country music is especially well-placed to describe American lives and American woes.

The only other genre which performs the same function, he says, is hip-hop.

"I write the same thing they do," he says. "I just live in a different part of town."

Voicing anger

Part of the sprawling north-east urban corridor, Hartford might not seem like typical country country, but Keith says the fans are more passionate here than anywhere.

Not surprisingly, then, the city boasts a successful country music station, 92.5 WWYZ.

Breakfast show host Cory Meyers says many of the current songs reflect her listeners' pre-occupations.

"They're voicing what we all feel," she says. "We want somebody to blame. They're voicing our anger."

It's not all anger, of course. Tune in to country music stations across the land and the playlists still mostly revel in time-honoured themes: pickup trucks, long-legged girls and drinking.

But even here, some observers detect an undercurrent of unease.

"Economic conditions are definitely showing up in the music, not just in songs that talk explicitly about unemployment, but in songs that look at a search for identity and validation," says Jocelyn Neal, who runs courses in popular music at the University of North Carolina.

Radio host Cory Meyers: We want someone to blame

"It's looking for ways for these people in the song lyrics but also in the country music audience to say 'what is my purpose in life?'"

Perhaps no-one knows this better than John Howard.

A financial broker in Florida for over 20 years, making music had only ever really been a pastime. But Howard suddenly found himself depending on it when the company he worked for in Sarasota filed for bankruptcy.

He quickly penned a song called With A Little Bit Of Luck, and started playing it at his local Gulf Coast haunts.

"They love it," he says of his audiences. "First they start tapping their feet, but after they start catching the words... all of a sudden they're paying attention to it."

The song came third in a song-writing contest, got some radio airplay and finally went viral.

More Jimmy Buffett than Hank Williams, Howard is happy enough to place his song in country's tradition of story-telling.

"Country music is a genre which does seem to lend itself to these kinds of songs which hit very close to home when it comes to talking about hard times and reality," he says.

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The NY art world commemorates September 11 in music, film

NEW YORK-"Boy, it's a great city," said Woody Allen, lounging on a park bench overlooking the East River of Manhattan and 59th Street Bridge. "" "". I don't care what everyone said. This is really a knock-out, you know? »

The scene is 1979 film "Manhattan," Allen a portrait sustainable, romantic in the hometown of the Director, "a city that existed in black and white and lived to the great Arias of George Gershwin." "".

It is a time capsule of a bygone New York, long before the original band has changed on September 11, 2001.

Sunday, New York theatres, museums, concert halls, galleries and rooms will be abound in cultural events in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the day. Happenings range projections of old movies such as "Manhattan" at Lincoln Center great symphonies to humble performances. But they all seek to use the arts – a bedrock, New York life - to share in reflection, to inspire emotion, to add only a minimum of healing of wounds too fresh to be 10 years old.

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President of the Academy of music in Brooklyn, said there are many institutions that "wants to be collection of places for people to express their feelings, be together and have an emotional connection."

"A cultural institution of large role," said, "is always respond to the public and respond to events which stir the public."

BAM, as he did on the first anniversary of September 11, will screen "Manhattan" free Sunday. It also later in the month will welcome the Kronos Quartet performing "Clocks," a meditation on 9/11.

Galleries of Chelsea in the theatres of Broadway, the cultural landscape of the city will be held Sunday. It has already been in preparation for the anniversary, its industry of publishing, books and magazines commemorative special edition of the the New Yorker and his media preparing to television coverage on the site of the World Trade Center of turbulence.

"Music after," a 15-hour-long concert featuring the musicians of New York including Philip Glass, Steve Reich, David Bowie, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson and Elliot Carter, will be held in free in SoHo. Silent Music Orchestra will perform at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will be live streaming on npr.org and wqxr.org.

Cathedral Saint-Patrick, New York Choral Society will perform, among other works, of Harry Belafonte "" turn the world autour."" Symphony Space will present a free Memorial concert with readings of poetry selected. In the Lower East Side, will perform jazz saxophonists Joe McPhee, Rob Brown and Oliver Lake, among others, "" from the ashes: 10 years later. ""

At the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday night, the New York Philharmonic will perform Mahler's "resurrection". (It will be broadcast live on WQXR and WNYC and be aired Sunday on PBS).

Sunday, Lincoln Center will host "A Concert of celebration" with Karl Jenkins ' "armed man: a mass for peace." " The event was coordinated as a "global peace sing," with the choirs of the world performing "The armed Man" throughout September.

"Music has emotional force that can move people and bring it all together," explains Jenkins. "" "". He has a healing force and a healing power and certainly a spiritual power. And I think that this will be evident on this occasion. »

The Public, "Sweet and sad" theatre, a new piece by Tony Award - winner Richard Nelson, will be opened. Which will take place on September 11, 2011, the game continues the playwright on "immediate" series.

There are many other pieces on the theme of the 11 September in the theaters off-Broadway, "Fences", y including Rehana Mirza Steve Fetter Lew "A step blue sky as the other" and Obie Award-winning of Jonas Hassen Khemiri "Invasion!"

Friday, Broadway collectively marked the anniversary by singing "New York, New York" Times Square, as cast members and musicians did in the days of 9/11.

Lincoln Center will host a special screening of Spike Lee "25th Hour", with the Director in the presence. Integrated Lee 9/11 in the film, including the opening credits showcase Spotlight shined on the site of the shopping centre.

The Museum of the Moving Image project "Man on Wire," citizen documentary on the promenade of the French artist tightrope walker Philippe Petit wire between the tops of the twin towers in 1974.

Located on the edge of the downtown area which was closed after 11 September, the Film Forum, New York of cinema directory bastion, was forced to close for several days after the event. At the time, he was running a series of films with New York "NYPD" most beautiful, including the "French Connection" and "The taking of Pelham 123."

To commemorate the 10th anniversary, the Film Forum runs the series once again, in tribute to the New York Police Department. Sunday, it will detect "Serpico," Sidney Lumet "The Naked City" of Jules Dassin and the less known "Pay or Die!" with Ernest Borgnine as early NYPD crime organized-Hunter Joe Petrosino.

"We do this kind of thing much, commemorating," explains Bruce Goldstein, Director of the Film Forum directory. "But 9/11 was simply too memorable, too traumatic day a day not to recognize a way, the way in which we do best, which shows movies.".

At Bryant Park, a tribute will be held with empty chairs representing each victim of New York, terrorist attacks. In an exhibition of the artist Sheryl Oring, several typists will record the thoughts of the visitors on September 11. (There are many memorials and tributes held around the city, including "Tribute in light", two beams of light that will echo the twin towers.)

The Met is presenting a "The 9/11 peace Story quilt," aging faith Ringgold designed, in collaboration with students from New York, 8 to 19. The new Museum, free Sunday, will feature of Spanish artist Elena del Rivero installation. It is inspired by his apartment in downtown, which filled with debris after the attacks.

MoMA p.s.1, one of the oldest in the country and most large institutions without profit of contemporary art, will open the exhibit "11 September" with 70 works by artists such as Diane Arbus, Christo, and Yoko Ono that examine how 9/11 has "changed the ways in which see us and experience the world." The Brooklyn Museum organized the exhibition "" ten years later: Ground Zero Remembered. ""

There will be exhibitions of photographs, including one at the International Center of Photography; Joel Meyerowitz's "Aftermath". Portraits of Joe McNally of the heroes of 9/11, "faces of Ground Zero: 10 years later". Study of decades of Camilo José Vergara of World Trade Center, "The Twin Towers and the city"; former, photographs of NYPD detective boot John; and much more.

Sarah Skaggs' "dance of 9/11 - a traveling Memorial" will bring a meditative choreography in multiple locations around the city.

Of course, there are many, many other events across the city Sunday. And gatherings will be more there, not. Monday, comedians Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler will be the host of the second annual 9/11 memorial - hugging puppy parade in the Gowanus of Brooklyn section.

As the narrator in the grand old Dassin film: "There are eight million stories in the naked city." The 10th anniversary of the September 11, there will be at least that many.

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