AMC honors Tim Lautzenheiser.
The American Music Conference (AMC) recently honored Tim Lautzenheiser with its annual Henry Grossman Lifetime Director Award in recognition of his long and successful record as a clinician, author, composer, college band director, consultant, adjudicator and overall friend to music. The presentation took place during the Music & Sound...

Baseball profile: Matt Morris--St. Louis Cardinals.
FULL NAME: Matthew Christian Morris AGE, HT., WT.: 29. 6-5, 220 Born: August 9, 1974 in Middletown, New York HOME: Jupiter, Florida STATUS/FAMILY: Married NICKNAME: Matty Mo LIFE OUTSIDE BASEBALL: It's pretty quiet. I value my time...

Classic Guitars.
Classic Guitars Robert Shaw & Michael Tamborrino Pomegranate Communications, Inc. PO Box 808022, Petaluma, CA 94975-8022 www.pomegranate.com 0764928880 $15.95 1-800-227-1428 The guitar is an versatile instrument of fundamental importance ranging from Victorian parlor music and the distinctive...

Best work$tation buy$ for CAD users.
It's time again to look at the latest, greatest, and fastest workstations. This roundup includes the first 2.4GHz Pentium 4 chips, the first NVIDIA Quadro4 graphics cards, and the first systems with 533MHz front bus speed. Though each iteration of our workstation roundup produces incrementally faster test scores, this...

Interplay Announces Off-Road Redneck Racing(TM) for the PC; (Officially Endorsed by Leonard & Bubba!!).
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- 14 Degrees East, a division of Interplay Entertainment Corp. (Nasdaq: IPLY), is pleased announce the development of Off-Road Redneck Racing(TM) for the PC. The latest addition to Interplay's popular millions-selling Redneck franchise, Off-Road Redneck Racing is designed as a high quality...

PubliCARD Unveils New Smart Card Interface Chip For Computer Keyboard Market and Receives First Significant Order.
Combines EMV Compliant Interface with USB Hub and Keyboard Controller NEW YORK, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Infineer(TM), Inc., a subsidiary of PubliCARD, Inc. (Nasdaq: CARD), today launched the latest in its growing line of smart card interface solutions and announced a significant initial order for...

Never mind the Sex Pistols: Theresa Duncan on Game Boy music.
IF PUNK ROCK DIED when the first kid said, "Punk's not dead!" then reports of the genre's vitality would appear to be greatly exaggerated. Everyone from pop star Avril Lavigne to Nike CEO Phil Knight has recently avowed the living influence of punk on their respective cultural output. So...

Turning Tree into Tunes.
"Come on over. I'll be out in my shop," David Anton told me when I phoned to ask if I could see his latest project. David is a luthier. He makes classical guitars. His "experiments," as he calls them, are prized as works of art as well as for...

FESTIVAL NOTES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Festival will debut two new Steinway pianos When Dick Hyman performs this month in the concert hall at the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, he will be playing on a new Steinway grand piano. Actually, The...

John Blashford-Snell: Colonel John Blashford-Snell is in a remote part of Guyana, where he's helping a local tribe set up a sustainable business, and tuning its grand piano. The explorer, who is best known for his reed-boat adventures, spoke to Christian Amodeo until the solar-charged batteries of his satellite phone ran out.
What are you doing in Guyana? Our aim is to set up a scientific research centre and a small ecotourism business for the Wai-Wai people. In addition, I have brought with me three piano tuners to service the baby grand piano I donated to the village of...