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| Katy Perry tops Facebook chart thanks to ‘Last Friday Night’ Posted: 18 Jun 2011 07:50 AM PDT  A video screenshot of Katy Perry – Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.). Katy Perry's latest single 'Last Friday Night' has propelled the artist up the Facebook charts. – Photo ©2011 YouTube, LLC This massive increase in fans is most likely due to the release of her new single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)," the video of which has attracted over 15 million views since June 12. The video for Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F)" is available to watch via Perry's Facebook page, but fans must first "like" the page before playing the video – something which undoubtedly contributed to the artist's 1,233,503 new Facebook fans over the seven days prior to June 17. According to data from social network monitoring site Famecount the increase of fans of Katy Perry's Facebook page was more than any other Facebook page over the past seven days. In total, Californian born Katy Perry now has 29,319,125 Facebook fans and is currently the eighth most popular musician on Facebook. However, in terms of total fans, Katy Perry still has a long way to go before catching up with the three biggest Facebook musical stars – Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Eminem. Rihanna and Lady Gaga currently both have over 38 million fans with Gaga slightly ahead, while Eminem has over 40 million fans and is currently the most "liked" person, living or dead, on the social networking site. – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Prague to host world premiere of Vivaldi’s lost opera Posted: 18 Jun 2011 02:22 AM PDT  As the festival venue, organisers have chosen the Ledebour Garden at the foot of the Prague Castle. – shutterstock.com "It's a specific genre of Baroque opera, shorter, which is called 'la serenata' and which was composed for a specific occasion at that time," conductor, composer and harpsichord player Ondrej Macek said. Vivaldi (1678-1741) composed the serenata L'Union della Pace, e di Marte (Union of Peace with Mars) for the birth of French King Louis XV's first children, twin sisters Louise Elisabeth and Anne Henriette. "Ordered by the French ambassador to Venice, the work was performed only once, in mid-September 1727, in the open air, in a garden adjacent to the church of Madonna dell'Orto in Venice," said Macek. The complete libretto, containing notes on the birth of the twins in August 1727, and on the political situation of that time, has been preserved in the National Braidense Library in Milan. But the score disappeared altogether, and had to be reconstructed on the basis of tunes from Vivaldi's other operas. "When I was reading the libretto for the first time, I could already see that many songs look familiar to me," said Macek, who in 2008 discovered and then reconstructed a major part of Vivaldi's lost opera Argippo which had premiered in Prague in 1730. "As the composer did not have too much time to create this serenata for that sole performance, he logically used themes from his other operas," he added. "At that time, it was a usual and legitimate method of composition, especially in Italy," said the 39-year-old expert on Baroque music. The international ensemble Hof-Musici, led by Macek himself, will perform L'Unione della Pace, e di Marte several times within the Prague Baroque Festival starting on June 17. The premiere is scheduled for July 4. As the festival venue, organisers have chosen the Ledebour Garden at the foot of the Prague Castle – a picturesque example of gardening architecture of the early 18th century. – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
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