Free Download from John Marks Records
Classical music retailer Arkivmusic.com is making available for download this holiday season four CDs from John Marks Records: the three Rejoice! A String Quartet Christmas CDs and Songs My Mother Taught Me, from violinist Arturo Delmoni and some of his friends.Click through for a free FLAC download.
Free Music Service Disappearing?
A quickly established favorite among music fans, the CDDBhttp://www.cddb.com">CDDB; website provides comprehensive information for tracking who and what appears on just about any CD in existence (see previoushttp://www.stereophile.com/news/10438/">previous;). But as users of the service are discovering, the company that now maintains the database, Gracenotehttp://www.gracenote.com">Gracenote;, is starting to change the rules of access.
Free Music!
A ticket to Home Entertainment 2003—The Hi-Fi and Home Theater event, to be held June 5-8, 2003 at San Francisco's Westin–St. Francis Hotel will offer attendees a chance to hear over a dozen live musical performances from great artists performing contemporary jazz, blues, rock, and classical music.
Free Online Course on Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
In collaboration with Coursera, the online learning company, and starting September 3, The Curtis Institute will be offering at no charge the course Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas, taught by Curtis Institute's Neubauer Family Foundation Chair in Piano Studies Jonathan Biss. The course will last five weeks, with an anticipated workload of 12 hours a week.
Free Seminars and Clinics at HE2007
Show attendees at Home Entertainment 2007, the High Performance Sound & Imaging Show of the year, will be treated to several educational seminars and clinics that will help guide and inform them about the choices confronting contemporary music and film lovers looking for better home entertainment experiences.
Free Stuff at Home Entertainment Expo
During this week's Home">http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com/">Home Entertainment Expo, high-tech entertainment fans will get to enjoy some of the best audio and video gear to be found on the planet. A few lucky ones will get to take some of it home—free.
Free Trip to HE2004 NY
Québec Audio & Video, Canada's premier home entertainment magazine, is hosting its fourth annual contest held in conjunction with the Home">http://www.he2004.com">Home Entertainment 2004 Show, scheduled to take place May 20–23, 2004 in New York City.
Freebies Fading as Napster Goes Commercial?
Money and legal pressure can make even the fiercest tiger change its stripes. Nearing the end of prolonged litigation with the music industry, Napsterhttp://www.napster.com/">Napster; has begun to go commercial.
French Fries from AudioVision San Francisco
The idea was as cute as the chapeaux that Antonio Long, Randy Johnson, and Marlen Kirby (from left to right in photo above) invariably sport at AudioVision SF. Schedule a public demo on November 14 with two French manufacturers, Triangle Loudspeakers and Devialet, and call it "French Fries." Then, however, reality intervened, and an evening that included debuts of two products, Triangle's Signature line Alpha loudspeakers and Nordost's Sort Füt Premium Kit, morphed into a Franco-American feast complete with Norwegian-American trimmings.
From Simaudio's Moon: A new product, a new series
Simaudio has introduced a streaming network streamer/integrated amplifier, the Moon 371, the first product in a new, more affordable series called Compass. Why Compass? The name evokes the name of the higher-end North series, introduced in 2023. "Compass guides you North," a Simaudio rep said at a press event in Boucherville, across the river from Montreal.