Linden Lab recently served notice that they were going to double the tier fees for non-profits and educational sims, sending universities, non-profits and graduate students with limited budgets into a flurry of thoughts about how to cut 50% of their costs. Some are talking about reducing sims, some are talking about sharing sims, and others…
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19 @ 12 pm SLT Labour Day Echoes Cindy Ecksol, American Roots music In this program, Cindy will wander through the songs of work and workers with her usual mixture of historical and musical context and a dash of warm humour about the absurdities of life in our own century. Cindy Ecksol…
I think we all need to keep our eye on the changes and new content on the SL homepages. A few days ago a Music Island audience member came to me to say that she'd tried to point a new resident in the direction of my Music Island concert series, telling her that it…
Yuki Ukita, piano Thursday April 15 7 am SLT (PDT) Music Island, Sea Turtle Island A wave of great musicians have been arriving in Second Life from Japan and Music Island audiences are fortunate enough to be hearing from two leading lights this month. First pianist Yuki Ukita (YukithePianoPlayer Hutchison in SL) and…
Zachh Cale, piano Saturday, April 10 12 pm SECOND LIFE TIME (Pacific Daylight Time) at Music Island, Sea Turtle Island Join Zachh for some standards and originals. Zachh is a Music Island favorite performer who we've not heard from since December 2009. At Zachh's first performance, Linden Lab (in their usual lack…
ATHEENE DODONPA Medieval Song Thursday, April 8 @ 1 pm SLT Accompanying herself on the nun's fiddle, lap harp, hurdy-gurdy or other rarily heard instruments as needed, Atheene's haunting soprano travels the world of the Middle Ages to bring us songs from all cultures in the languages that the works were written and performed…
Young Zeid, violin/Viola Music Island, Sea Turtle Island March 28, 2010 12: 30 pm SLT (Pacific Daylight Time) Program: Bee F. Schubert ( 1808-1878) From a set of bagatelles, published in 1856 by the German composer and violinist Franz Anton Schubert. (not to be confused with the earlier and…
"Why is Music Island all mixed up?" said one visitor to MI this morning. Instead of one stage and seating areas there are two. This state of affairs will persist only until after the Avatar Metaverse Orchestra concert on Sat. Mar. 27. Because of the unique nature of the performance, audience and…
Zen Qork, Improvisational Piano Saturday March 20, 8 am SLT Music Island, Sea Turtle Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sea%20Turtle%20Island/59/21/851 Zen Qork AKA Alessandro Lecce is a new classic and film music composer. Born in 1969 in Milan, Italy, where he studied composition, piano, choral singing, clarinet and music animation. Many of his compositions have been…
On Thursday we had a full house when Linden Labs deleted the stage side of Music Island. Previously the start time had been delayed 10 minutes when the audience half of the venue was re-started and everyone who had arrived at the top of the concert ran over the sim line and onto the…
Fantastic Euro-friendly time for Thursday's concert Thursday Mar 4 @ 8 am SLT Music Island, Sea Turtle Island Duo Appassionato possesses exceptional virtuoso ability and musical harmony rarely found in two instrmentalists of the same genre performing together. Both active solo performers of unsurpassed spirit and flair, the duo has a refreshing stage…
Anonymity as the enemy of artist branding: "Who is this guy again?" I don't like to think of the arts as a product. I blanche when marketing folks talk about the importance of "branding" to a roomful of arts managers and artists. Afterall we like to think that we are in the…
