A quick note: Paul McCart­ney’s album, Mem­o­ry Almost Full, is going today for $2.99 on Ama­zon. Sup­pos­ed­ly, it’s just a one day deal, so it seemed worth a men­tion…

This comes to us cour­tesy of TED Talks. Here, Itay Tal­gam, an Israeli con­duc­tor, talks about the art of lead­ing an orches­tra and shows the styles of six great 20th-cen­tu­ry con­duc­tors. Ulti­mate­ly, there are some gen­er­al lessons here. Lessons about lead­er­ship. Give it a few min­utes, and it gets going. Mean­while, on a relat­ed note, you might want to check out Yale’s new open course, Lis­ten­ing to Music, which uses clas­si­cal musi­cal to make sense of music more gen­er­al­ly. Thanks Vick­ie for the great find.

A quick note: Ama­zon will let you down­load a Philip Glass sam­pler that con­tains 21 tracks. You can get them as mp3s, and they’re all free. But the deal ends (it seems) by the end of the day. So act quick­ly.

via Life­hack­er

Accord­ing to the LA Times, U2 will live stream its con­cert this com­ing Sun­day night on YouTube. Some 95,000 peo­ple have tick­ets for the Rose Bowl show in LA. If you’re not one of them, then you can watch the YouTube stream start­ing at 8:30 pm Pacif­ic time. The footage will also be archived for any­one who miss­es it. More details here and here.

This clip of Coltrane’s 1960 clas­sic comes to us via @hughmcguire.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Beethoven’s Fifth: The Ani­mat­ed Score

How a Bach Canon Works. More Bril­liant Ani­ma­tion

Gus­ta­vo Dudamel, the new music direc­tor of the Los Ange­les Phil­har­mon­ic, kicked off his tenure last Sat­ur­day with a free per­for­mance of Beethoven’s Sym­pho­ny No. 9 at the Hol­ly­wood Bowl. 18,000 peo­ple were in atten­dance. You can lis­ten to the con­cert in its entire­ty here, and read a review of Dudamel’s maid­en voy­age with the LA Phil here.

via @ooble