Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Whenever you hear the song “You Belong With Me”, the beautiful country singer Taylor Swift face comes to your imagination. The interesting thing is that you can meet the diva who has entertained you with her melodious songs.

Counting as the most successful country singer, Taylor has many adoring fans. Wherever she goes, folks sought her name and want to see this beautiful diva. She is quite popular among kids and teens because of her cute look. It is not hard to meet Taylor. Here are some tips that may help you to meet her.

You can meet her at her concerts. Check out her website to know where her next concert is. If she is coming to your city for a concert, you can be lucky to see her. Through Taylor website, you can easily know the sponsor name.   Once get the sponsor name, search online for the place where she is going to perform. Writing sponsor name on Google search engine you can easily get the online store from where you can buy her concert tickets.

If you fail to achieve the ticket, you still have one more chance. Taylor is well-known for spending lots of time signing autographs. She spends around 2-3 hours with her fans signing away. So you need to know where she is going to stay during her concert visit to your city. Once you know the hotel address where she is going to spend time in your city, you will meet her.

Another way is risky but can give you chance to meet your favorite singer, Taylor. If you get the ticket and reach the concert venue, try to meet her back entrance. She probably has no chance to sign your autograph but you can see her closely and can shake hands.

Try these tips as many fans are following them. You could be lucky to get chance to meet this lovely singer.

The mantra for the music sensation Spotify has turned out to be like this: get the users of the service first hooked for nothing with the help of the quality selection, offering it for free. And once they are hooked, ask them it is free no more.

The Swedish company working on the US land now is free for the users initially, but only initially. You might be surprised to know that in the first four months the company has gathered over 4 million users who are engaged in playing from its over 15 million titles. You may guess one of the reasons: it is free, absolutely free.

But as it is revealed now it is just a part of its strategy to attract more customers. It can only be business strategy with the giants only as the company has to pay a royalty to the original source of the music very time you listen a song on its service for “free”. The other elements of its strategy are also intelligent.

Once the customers are hooked, they will certainly not mind paying for the quality service. It includes listening to your favorite songs from its vast collection without any commercial breaks. The service is available on your mobile as well. There are even more premium features with Spotify that offers seamless music.

The entry of the company in the US market is timely as well. Researches project a rise in the market for subscription of music services almost four fold from the previous year to $2.2 billion. If you have an eye on this market and are capable of affording the royalties for a few months, it is all the wiser to go the Spotify way.

The company has already been a success in Europe but the US is the biggest market for music and it is on its way to succeed there.
The services offered, after the phase of free service, cost $ 4.99 to the subscribers. Those to enjoy music on smartphones have to pay $9.99.

The company doesn’t declare how many of the users have switched to the paid mode of service. But the numbers of free users certainly give a hint about the prospects the company is enjoying.

Kenneth Parks, the head of Spotify’s U.S. operations, reveals the basis of its confidence. He says Spotify is fast and engaging beside its great collection and quality in delivering its service.

He also hints towards the projections showing the market is on rise. He agrees that exposure to the quality service for no charge is the key to success in this case. So everyone gets his/her share you get the music and the company gets its profit!

Mark Elder recently wrote an article about the top five symphonies of history. One among them was the Shostakovich’s seventh Symphony Leningrad. It was composed during the Second World War, in 1941. It is taken to be one of the most dramatic symphonies of the world.

It was performed in the city of Leningrad. The orchestra was rebuilt from the remains of the War. It made a milestone in the history of music and every musician, even till today, has its impact on him. It is seen as a product of the decisive conflict of the Second World War that shaped its culmination: the conflict had Soviets on the one side and the Nazi’s in the leadership of Hitler on the other.

This backdrop and the never-fading quality of the music underline the fact that it is society that is the ultimate source of a creation. The musician with his great talent is a medium to express the energies of the people at a particular time in history. The music went so popular and impactful. It had to go that way because if the Nazis were not ultimately defeated, they would have written even darker chapters of history of the 20th century.

Some seek in Shostakovich’s music an expression of his unrest against Stalin’s regime, but it is the historical war on its way to victory that the music takes inspiration from and in turn it inspires the same. The war proved to be a historical victory for humanity and the symphony made its way to people’s hearts likewise.

The symphony is statement of the hardships the war was bringing to the whole world. The first movement of the symphony has a never-ending drumming from its middle that goes on getting louder and ever louder culminating in an almost trembling orchestra in the end.

It produces a ghastly fury and symbolizes the one produced by the war itself. The drumming starts in the middle of the movement, symbolizing the mischievous but nasty arrival of the Nazis to the Soviet land.

The end of the historical symphony is a statement of victory. When a victory is a product of involvement of whole people of a nation, who endeavor to move against the current, it results in changing the direction the current moves. And every weapon employed in it, including the music, becomes immortal.