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We Must Inform Stories Of Black Delight: Will Certainly Liverman Talks With Lara Downes

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In Februrary, Will Liverman released his album Dreams of a New Day. It’s a beautiful collection of art songs by Black composers, many in world premiere recordings, that chart the peaks and valleys of the Black American experience, celebrating hope and joy, but too often chronicling pain, violence and loss.

The opening track is a setting by composer Damien Sneed of Langston Hughes’ “I Dream a World,” in which the poet writes: “A world I dream where black or white, / Whatever race you be, / Will share the bounties of the earth / And every man is free.”

That dream — a dream deferred — took on urgency and energy in recent years, bringing millions together in the streets of our cities. And those of us who express this dream through music have also come together, lifting our voices in a crescendo that asks for one simple thing: just to be heard. When we choose, as Will and I both have, to uncover the forgotten music of Black composers like Margaret Bonds, Florence Price, and H. Leslie Adams, when we collaborate with Black composers of our own generation to create new work, we do it because we want our own stories to be heard, and we want to tell them in our own way.

Next season, Will stars in the first opera by a Black composer ever performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera — a dream come true, for him and for the many singers before him who never had that chance. And he’s writing his own opera, The Factotum, a joyous reimagining of Rossini‘s The Barber of Seville that’s set in a modern-day Black barbershop on Chicago’s South Side, with a score that draws on hip-hop, R&B and gospel as well as classic opera. He’s realizing the dream of telling his own story, to be heard in a new way, for a new day.

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RIAA Addresses IP Protections in USTR’S 2024 Unique 301 Report

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[[{“value”:”“The 2024 Special 301 Report provides a vital snapshot of the environment for music creators globally as well as a critical blueprint for US engagement with countries around the world to support them,” commented RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Glazier. 
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WASHINGTON, DC ( April 25, 2024) — Today, the United States Trade Agent (USTR) provided its yearly Unique 301 Report relating to deficiencies of copyright and other kinds of copyright (IP) securities in specific nations. The Report examines the existing legal, regulative, judicial, and enforcement actions on IP in those nations and recognizes the effect on United States music developers while likewise highlighting systemic concerns for United States federal government engagement to advance imagination worldwide. Amongst the cross-cutting concerns that show the music neighborhood’s input into the Unique 301 procedure, USTR Ambassador Katherine Tai acknowledged the important value of American developers’ contributions to United States tasks and financial development, keeping in mind Stakeholders from both unions and business in the imaginative sectors have actually highlighted the value of copyright defense and enforcement to their incomes and companies.”

” The 2024 Unique 301 Report offers an essential photo of the environment for music developers worldwide in addition to a vital plan for United States engagement with nations around the globe to support them, commented RIAA Chairman && CEO Mitch Glazier ” We value acknowledgment of uncomfortable patterns in many areas that would hurt the American music neighborhood, consisting of constraints on streaming rights, inadequate enforcement, and stream-ripping piracy, and the recognition of favorable advancements relating to copyright defense and enforcement. We motivate the United States Federal government in future Reports to resolve appropriate copyright defense in the context of AI as dedicated to by President Biden in the G7, and to oppose broad exceptions consisting of text and information mining. We likewise advise the United States Federal government to engage with nations based on continuous trade examinations, and to resolve deeply bothersome propositions on copyright and agreement matters, especially in South Africa.”

” We thank Ambassador Tai and the whole interagency group for their vigorous deal with this essential procedure. RIAA highly supports the United States Federal government’s extensive technique to promoting American developers globally, consisting of through existing and future IP discussions with the European Union, India and the UK.”

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Year-End 2023 RIAA U.S. Latin Music Income Report/ Informe de Fin del Año 2023 de RIAA Sobre Ingresos de Música Latina en Estados Unidos

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Latin music in the U.S. has actually increased in appeal and worth over the last 8 years, outmatching general documented music each year throughout this duration of strong development. In 2023, the category struck its greatest mark yet at $1.4 billion, representing 16% development over 2022. Changed for inflation, Latin music market profits in 2023 are now 14% above the previous peak in 2005.

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INFORME DE FIN DE AÑO 2023 DE RIAA SOBRE INGRESOS DE MÚSICA LATINA EN ESTADOS UNIDOS

La música latina en los EE. UU. creció en cuanto a su popularidad y valor durante los últimos ocho años, superando a la música grabada en basic cada año durante este período de fuerte crecimiento. En 2023, el género alcanzó su marca más alta con $1400 millones, que representa un crecimiento del 16 % con respecto a 2022. Ajustados por la inflación, los ingresos del mercado de la música latina en 2023 ahora están un 14 % por encima del pico previo en 2005.

ENLACE AL INFORME COMPLETO EN ESPAÑOL AQUÍ

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Live Music On I-Drive Orlando

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Live Music on I-Drive Orlando; Supper & & Dancing at Cuba Libra. Friday’s & & Saturday’s; DJ Night. Friday and Saturday; Live Acoustic Music. Fridays and Saturdays.

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