Utopia isn't so bad.
DISNEY WORLD is billed as "the happiest place on Earth," but Walt Disney's image of the ideal community had little to do with Mickey Mouse. Disney intended for the city of Epcot to be a utopian community near Disney World in Orlando, Florida. He envisioned a place with no...

Digital photographer moves panoramas into the great indoors.
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard The humble workplaces of the Eugene art world are bent, folded and miraculously transformed in a collection of large panoramic photographs Dennis Galloway is showing this month and next at the Eugene Public Library. Galloway, a career professional photographer who...

Line 6 Launches BackTrack and BackTrack + Mic.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-29 September 2008-Line 6 Launches BackTrack and BackTrack + Mic(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Line 6, a provider of digital modeling technology for music creation products, announced BackTrack and BackTrack + Mic, recording devices that guitarists can rely on to capture all their inspirations, epiphanies and...

Organist still performing at 99; Athol man is Templeton fixture.
Byline: Paula J. Owen ATHOL - At age 99, Allen E. Hastings has many interesting stories to tell, and has worn the hats of physicist, woodworker, business owner, musician and organ builder, to name a few. Music from the pipe organ played by Mr. Hastings...

Note by note: the making of Steinway L1037.
A tribute to what may become a lost art, Ben Niles's documentary traces the production process of a single Steinway piano, which takes one year and in which 450 craftsmen handle 12,000 parts. Located in Queens by the street named after it, the company prides itself on applying the...

A Living Legacy: Historic Stringed Instruments at The Juilliard School.
[??] A Living Legacy: Historic Stringed Instruments at The Juilliard School, by Lisa B. Robinson. Amadeus Press (www.amadeuspress.com, www.musicdispatch.com; (800) 637-2852), 2006. 96 pp. $75. It was a wonderful pleasure to delve into this comprehensive, 91-page inventory of the unique and beautifully preserved collection of stringed instruments...

Steinway to Terminate Proposed Woodwind & Brasswind Acquisition.
WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Steinway Musical Instruments, Inc. announced today it has provided a notice of termination of the asset purchase agreement dated December 15, 2006 with Dennis Bamber, Inc. d/b/a The Woodwind & The Brasswind. Based on the due diligence performed subsequent to December 15th, the...

Memphis Celebrates 50 Years of Soul in 2007.
Year-Long Campaign Spotlights Soul Legends Including Isaac Hayes, David Porter, Steve Cropper and Al Bell NEW YORK, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau (http://www.memphistravel.com/) marks a soulful milestone in 2007 and is inviting America to the party. The city, a breeding ground for...

A living legacy; historic stringed instruments at the Juilliard School.
1574671464 A living legacy; historic stringed instruments at the Juilliard School. Ed. by Lisa B. Robinson. Amadeus Press, LLC 2006 89 pages $75.00 Hardcover ML462 Issued in commemoration of the hundredth...

Dodgen & Freeman.
The Oxford Church of Christ provided the sacred setting for the May 5, 2007, nuptials of Ashley Terrell Dodgen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Dodgen of Port Gibson, and Tyler J. Freeman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Freeman of Oxford. The candlelight ceremony was at six o'clock...