Tom is a hick.

i New York Times i tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical mini medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes from Sonny and Cher and the Village People.

So homegirls and hillbillies we got it together and totally understand that this is what it's all about.

But the back of my T shirt, the one that she gave me, says, Save the endangered hillbillies.

Admittedly, not all of this giving is altruistic. New York s Lincoln Center announced last month that the billionaire entertainment industry mogul David Geffen has donated 100 million toward the renovation of its concert facility, Avery Fisher Hall, on the condition that it is renamed David Geffen Hall.

You know, Brazilian music scene isn't just answering the major labels.

Well, if anybody says country music isn't powerful, let me tell you this I got there because my father's passion for Johnny Cash and a song, A Boy Named Sue.

For example, there are different colors and each color gets a different type of singing pop, country and western, opera, jazz and you just have to be consistent with that color.

He started as a boy member of the children's orchestra in his hometown, Barquisimeto.

Cuban musicians have been prevented from gaining access to the United States market.

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I used to be a fan of Bach. I used to play it on the guitar, you know.

That's Hugo.

But the Americans? Oh, we'll make some guns for Lego, no problem.

It's just like music it really is just like music.

Chris Anderson You guys were amazing.

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DL We're going to play a tune and Natalie's going to accompany me on the piano.

I had patients tell me that those sound the same.

And the point, the essential nature, of musical performance is to produce excellent music.

There's live music, and there's recorded music.

I love Bartok's music, as did Mr. Teszler, and he had virtually every recording of Bartok's music ever issued.

Now my goal in showing you that is to show you that music is not robust to degradation.

And today, the hurdy gurdy is used in all sorts of music traditional folk music, dance, contemporary and world music in the U.K., in France, in Spain and in Italy.

Dr. V I used to sit with the ordinary village man because I am from a village, and suddenly you turn around and seem to be in contact with his inner being, you seem to be one with him.

It works the same internally with the president or the musical director, whose Casa da Musica portraits wind up on their business cards.

I like classical music more than modern music.

It was a concert he recorded in the Shrine Auditorium in 1949.

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Singer Ah, bitter blow!

And now the same piece of music with 98 percent of the data removed.

And you have CDs in your car, and you go to the symphony.

The music was very loud.

It branches on more the experimental side.

You adore classical music. Your FM is always on that classical dial.

So now I'm doing music so I know what the power of music is.

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Palestinian Woman We were told the wall would separate Palestine from Israel.

But he was tough when it came to music.

There are a lot of free concerts, for example, that go on in this area it has a phenomenal acoustic system.

So I was thinking, can you remove us as creators and try to make the music be the voice and have the animation following it?

These were the three buildings that were the ideal the Concertgebouw, Boston and Berlin.

As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.

It's my music. The real music is only in Karajan's head.