----- Original Message ----- From: Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:54 am Subject: [LUTE] For ambitious lutenists - iTunes > This came up on the Delian listserv: > > From: "nnamelet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm not sure my earlier memo to Joe Ford got to members' > > attention but recent information has emerged that the classical music > > category in Apple's iTunes is reporting a nearly unbelievable 12% of > > all downloads. That might put it ahead of rock, oldies, new age, jazz, > > Christian music, Spanish, etc.It could be just behind major popular > > genres like urban adult, adult contemporary, country, and rhythmic > > (i.e. hip hop), using the Arbitron categories for music types.
As promising as this seems, I'm afraid it really means there is a whole new digital generation of bleary eyed, zombified drones marching about, pumping some huge modern string orchestra's expansive, romantic, and lushly lifeless interpretation of Pachelbel's Canon directly into their brains. Beware ye who gig weddings! Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
