One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 12 September 2003

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The Alhambra of Granada, a source of...

The Spanish Piano
Took my first piano lesson in almost a year yesterday with my old teacher. I told her I wanted to learn something Spanish. We came up with Albeniz's Suite Espanola. I'm going to start with the first piece in the suite, entitled Granada and then move on from there. Beautiful stuff!

Amazing. Everything's coming up Spanish these days . . . (he said, mysteriously)

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Media: The price of digital radio sets is expected to fall following the announcement that Japanese electronics group Sony is to enter the market. [Guardian Unlimited] '"This turns digital into the radio market of the future," said Simon Cole, chief executive of radio group UBC Media. "In three or four years there will be no reason to buy an analogue set. [snip] According to Rajar, the audience measurement body for the radio industry, 19.7% of the British adult population, 9.5 million people, listen to radio through digital television. '

Interesting. I wonder if this might eventually spill over to Canada. And if it's digital tv broadcast which people are listening to it seems to me they might as well be listening to surround. Heads up music industry!

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For the soldiers of the First Brigade, coming home has been a far more complicated, even conflicted, experience than it seemed back in Iraq. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]