I love Rogue Amoeba’s apps, but Airfoil Speakers Touch feels like they are just cutting their teeth on the iPhone SDK for when bigger and more useful companion apps become possible. Rogue Amoeba has announced the release of Airfoil Speakers Touch, a free companion app for their cross-platform audio streaming tool Airfoil. This app gives any iPhone or iPod Touch the ability to receive streaming audio from an Airfoil app on your local wi-fi network. It’s a free download on the iTunes App Store. Airfoil is required and a free demo can be downloaded from Rogue Amoeba. Licenses (which remove the 10 minute time-limit) are $25.
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Guthrie's Kushner Festival launch event to feature Mike's newest choral work
Mike’s newest choral work, The Kushner Trilogy, commissioned by Dr. Stan Hill and the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus and with text from Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: Perestroika”, will premiere in Minneapolis on April 18 at the Guthrie Theater’s free “Kick-Off To Kushner” event.
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Reminder: Set your blogs ahead too
About the only thing left in my world that doesn’t adjust itself to Daylight Savings Time are my WordPress installations. So, along with that wall clock and old VCR, don’t forget to set your blogs ahead one hour, too.
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Finale 2009 still sucks
Finale 2009, by its own admission, is more paid bug fix than new feature upgrade, and even then it falls short. It is a program full of potential yet completely hampered by bugs. Those skilled in using Finale do not really use the program, as much as they have developed a vast palette of workarounds to get the output desired. Using it is feels like building a deck of cards.
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Where to find us in '09 (and a 2008 wrap-up)
2008 ended with the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus premiere of Mike’s oratorio Through A Glass, Darkly being cited for Outstanding Achievement in Opera by MN’s Lavender Magazine (Thanks! But…opera?). At least five more choruses around the country have expressed interest in staging their own concert productions in the near-future.