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Piano Man gives SU money for student composers
9/19/2005 3:29:25 PM
By: The Associated Press
The Piano Man is putting more than a few bucks in the jar for Syracuse University.

Six-time Grammy winner Billy Joel is giving $320,000 to Syracuse's Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The upstate school is one of seven East Coast schools chosen by Joel to receive funds as part of his recently launched music education initiative.

Syracuse will use the money to establish four Billy Joel Fellowships in Composition and hopes to enroll the first two students next fall.

Joel is also making grants to the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, New York University, The Juilliard School, State University at Purchase, the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts.


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Ad-supported music site SpiralFrog launches Monday, offers free music and video downloads

News Source: siliconvalley.com

Spiral Frog homepage: http://www.spiralfrog.com/

..."LOS ANGELES - SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing.

The music service, which has arranged to pay record companies a cut of its advertising revenue, aims to lure music fans who normally flock to online file-swapping networks to share and download music for free. The recording industry has sued thousands of computer users for doing so in recent years.

"We believe it will be a very powerful alternative to the pirate sites," said Joe Mohen, chairman and founder of New York-based SpiralFrog Inc. "With SpiralFrog you know what you're getting ... there's no threat of viruses, adware or spyware."..."