Monthly Archives: September 2008

Coming Up: Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights

In two weeks, I will be singing Mephistopheles in the staged premiere of David Ahlstrom’s opera Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, on a libretto by Gertrude Stein. This is a production of City College of San Francisco‘s Music and Theatre … Continue reading

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Coming Up: Carmen

JoAnn’s next performance will be in West Bay Opera’s production of Carmen, where she will sing in the chorus. Sarah Barber sings the title role. I have not heard her before, but the chorus is saying great things about her. … Continue reading

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ISMIR 2008 Wrapup

Last week’s ISMIR 2008 conference on music information retrieval was another grand success. It was great to meet several people who I had only corresponded with before on the MusicXML developer mailing list, including Geoff Chirgwin, Joachim Ganseman, and Phil … Continue reading

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Coming Up: ISMIR 2008

Next week is the annual International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, known as ISMIR for short. It started out 8 years ago as a symposium in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Since then it has grown into a full-fledged conference, but the ISMIR … Continue reading

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MusicXML – The Next Generation

Recordare completed our September product launches yesterday. In the past two weeks we have released: Dolet 4 for Sibelius, our plug-in for saving MusicXML files from Sibelius. This version works with Sibelius 5, saves MusicXML 2.0 files, and has a … Continue reading

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Lazy XML Design

A lot of the success of the MusicXML format has come from its iterative development, driven by the increasingly sophisticated needs of our customers and their applications. MusicXML 1.0 started out by representing musical semantics with some formatting data. This … Continue reading

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