Creative Economy: Award-winning jazz composer-conductor takes lead in digital piracy battle
When Maria Schneider was in graduate school in the 1980s, she was mildly interested in her required music-business courses, but her focus was the music itself. Little did she suspect that, decades later, along with having risen to the top of her profession as a big-band jazz composer and conductor, with five Grammy awards and high-profile commissions throughout the world, she also would emerge as a leading figure in debates about the...
Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary
The Lebanon Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 100th anniversary on Friday with a three-course dinner and live music at the Fireside Inn & Suites in West Lebanon. Founded in 1916, the Chamber now has 352 members representing about 30 percent of the area’s businesses. About 75 people attended the event, which also featured a talk by Steve Taylor about Lebanon in 1916 and the presentation of a commendation, from New Hampshire...
Tech Toys Take Over N.Y. Toy Fair
New York — From a preschool toy designed to teach pre-coding skills to a hands-on molecule-building set for older kids that works with an app, technology abounded at this year’s Toy Fair. The annual showcase of upcoming toys held recently in New York included a slew of tech-related products from the titans of the toy industry and tiny startups, all looking to attract increasingly tech-savvy kids. Here are the highlights. Some of the...
CD Players in Cars Are So 8-Track These Days
Automakers still put CD players into the dashboards of the majority of their cars, which seems strange 14 years after the iPod ushered in the intangible music revolution. Now, finally, the in-dash device’s days might be numbered. Compact-disc players have been slowly following cassette decks into the automotive-interior dustbin for a few years, and their disappearance is suddenly accelerating. A couple dozen 2016 models are rolling...
The Big Event: Women’s Network of the Upper Valley Honors WISE Executive Director
T he Women’s Network of the Upper Valley honored an area nonprofit and its director at an annual dinner last month. Peggy O’Neil, executive director of WISE, received the Deborah Aliber Award for Community Service. The Lebanon-based nonprofit provides advocacy and crisis intervention services to victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and stalking. The featured speaker, O’Neil described her work at WISE and “the necessity, sadly...
