Hello everyone, greetings from Artists House. We have some new content for you to consider.

Chris Horvath, Berkleemusic instructor and founder / creative director of Jamnation Music has contributed two pieces for us.  His publishing piece, Why Music Publishing? talks about how musicians who makes their business a publishing business first are putting themselves in much greater control of their career and future than the person who wants to be an artist, producer, songwriter, or session musician.  Chris’s other piece, Producer’s Reality Check, talks about what it really takes to be a music producer.

Mike King contributed a piece called SoundScan: What It Is and Why it Matters, as well as a state of the music blog entry on how the Arts and Crafts record label is breaking street date to sell digital copies of the new Stars record two months before the physical release is in stores.

George Howard has contributed a piece on the current state of the music industry here.

We have added two new video pieces since our last editorial.  The first is a master class with Martina Arroyo, opera singer, a former member of the National Endowment of the Arts, a member of the Carnegie Hall board of Trustees, and a teacher of music at several distinguished music schools. The second is a master class in conducting with Michael Adelson, a Staff Conductor for the New York Philharmonic and Conductor of the Boston-based Auros Group for New Music.  We re-edited these master classes to be easier to use. 

We’ve added a number of Forums from the music industry program at Loyola University New Orleans.  We encourage other programs, teachers, students, and industry professionals to post material as well.  If you would like to contribute to the site, either articles, videos, podcasts, blogs, or news items, please contact us.

Our friend and contributor, Sandy Feldstein, passed away this past week in Los Angeles.  Our condolences and love go out to his family and many friends around the world.  Sandy was a great and generous man who cared passionately about the well being of others, especially young people and their education in music.  He will be greatly missed, but he leaves behind an army of employees, associates, co-workers, teachers, advisees, students, and others, many of whom became leaders in their fields, all prepared and determined to make the world a better place, as he taught us to do by the example of his life.
John Snyder