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Future shock

bartoli_futureLa Cieca knows the cher public will be intrigued to hear that tomorrow night (Monday, November 16), NYC’s downtown classical music venue Le Poisson Rouge will offer a screening of Cecilia Bartoli in a live concert, filmed September 10, 2009.

Meanwhile, in honor of this cinematic event, your doyenne is launching a parterre competition for you. Details of both are after the jump. Read more »

disc bloodbath

La Cieca was reading a website the other day. It’s all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a website. Do you know that the guy said that downloaded media is going to take the place of CDs and DVDs?

Shoving her inner Jean Harlow back into her unconscious for a moment, La Cieca will admit that in fact a number of tech sites are predicting the demise of physical media within as little as five years. As heartbroken as she will be to part with her walls o’discs, your doyenne admits that downloading music is a whole lot easier and faster than shlepping all the way down to Academy Records. And she will further allow that her experience in buying and downloading music from amazon.com has been quite pleasant, not to mention economical.

And so La Cieca presents for your perusal a new (and nutty) kind of an amazon.com gizmo, the MP3 Clips Widget, offering a chance to sample (and, if you so choose, to purchase) high-quality music tracks. And need she mention that, as with all things Amazonian, parterre.com will get a commision for each track sold?