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Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by JERIC
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Internet Film Music Fans Traveling From Overseas To Attend Morricone
Concert At Radio City Music Hall
NEW YORK CITY — A group of about 30 die-hard film music fans will be
traveling from as far away as Norway and Sweden to attend film composer
Ennio Morricone's first-ever US concert at Radio City Music Hall on
Saturday. Others will be flying in from Canada, Oregon, Minnesota, Chicago
and northern New England to attend the concert and gathering. They are all
members of an online community based at StreamingSoundtracks.com, or SST for
short — a live, streaming Internet radio station devoted to film music. Most
have never met in person, though they have known each other for years
online.
The two SST members traveling farthest from overseas are Petter Solås and
Glenn Thomas Hvidsten, both from Norway. “The highlight of the trip will
definitely be to experience Ennio,” Solås said. “Meeting so many members of
the SST community and the whole thing taking place in NYC is just a big
bonus, which is why we are spending a whole week there.”
For Hvidsten, the chance to hear Morricone in a live concert was strongly
appealing, but it was the chance to meet so many of his online friends
face-to-face that finally convinced him to make the trip. “After all,
[Morricone] is one of the greatest film music composers there is, with an
incredible track record. When word of this concert spread to the community
over at StreamingSoundtracks.com (SST), everybody jumped out of their seats
and purchased tickets. Suddenly everybody I knew, and then some, from SST
was going, and the temptation for me to go grew beyond its limits, and I
decided to go as well. To experience Morricone's music performed live on
stage, with the Maestro himself conducting, together with the greatest
online film music community was suddenly a reality. I had to live off bread
and cold water for a couple of months to afford the flight and hotel, but I
will get a visual and auditory refund like I will never get again, which
makes it all worthwhile... and then some,” Hvidsten explained.
SST founder Eric Thornton is looking forward to the event, too. “I'm really
excited about it — really looking forward to meeting all the people, all the
personalities I've known from the web site. We’re meeting for dinner before
the concert and for drinks afterwards. It's going to be fun matching faces
with the people I've gotten to know,” he said. Asked whether he thought this
event was important milestone for SST, Thornton said, “Yes, I do. I think
this event will be important to the future of SST. It makes everything more
real. Even though we've been doing this for five and a half years, it feels
like this is the beginning of a whole new phase in the community's growth.
It seems like it will make the community larger, but at the same time even
closer together.”
SST was founded in August 2001. At the time it went live, the station had
fewer than 50 albums in its library. Now there are over 2600 albums in the
library — very many donated by devoted SST members.
Thornton started the station on his own personal PC connected to the
Internet over a dial-up connection; only three listeners could connect to
the stream simultaneously. The station is now co-located on two dedicated
servers at a data center in Ashburn, Virginia and averages over 500
simultaneous listeners during the peak daytime period, with the number
occasionally rising to over 750 — making it by far the dominant Internet
film music radio station.
SST focuses primarily on film and television scores, but also offers video
game and anime music. Listeners themselves program the station's playlist
and can also chat with one another in the station's chat room.Added the following soundtracks to the playlist:
300 - Tyler Bates *4
Around The World In 80 Days (1956) - Victor Young
*2
Arthur And The Invisibles - Eric Serra
Best Of Adventure - Various Artists *3
Bulworth - Ennio Morricone *3
Cuore Sacro - Andrea Guerra *3
Descent, The - David Julyan
Fatima - Marco Frisina *3
Good German, The - Thomas Newman
Holiday, The - Hans Zimmer
Le Bossu - Philippe Sarde *3
Letters From Iwo Jima - Michael Stevens
Librarian, The - Joseph LoDuca
Little Children - Thomas Newman
Notes On A Scandal - Philip Glass
Painted Veil, The - Alexandre Desplat
*2
Partition - Brian Tyler
Perfect Dark Zero - David Clynick
Quartiere & L'Uomo Proiettile - Ennio Morricone *3
Quo Vadis, Baby - Ezio Bosso *3
Saints And Soldiers - J. Bateman & Bart Hendrickson
Samson And Delilah - Marco Frisina & Ennio Morricone *3
Sinfonia De Ilegales - Luis De Arquer *3
Tango & Cash - Harold Faltermeyer
Two Mules For Sister Sara & Days Of Heaven - Ennio Morricone *3
Wah-Wah - Patrick Doyle
*1
Farewell Live365?
We will be most likely discontinuing service with Live365 as soon as
February 25th, 2007. Unfortunately Live365 has made it unaffordable to
be a successful Live/Relay broadcaster on their network. We will keep
you informed and hopefully have a definite decision for the next update.
Soundtrack Of The Month
January:
Holiday, The - Hans Zimmer
February:
Partition - Brian Tyler
Thanks
Thanks to *1
Varese Sarabande, *2
CineMedia Promotions,
*3 BhelPuri, and *4
Warner Bros. Records for sending these soundtracks in!
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Re: Morricone Concert, Playlist Update, Live365, STM & Thanks (Score: 1)
by workervr on Wednesday, January 31, 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | we so rock. where was that artical run? Great update by the way :) |
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