Last night Pandora officially introduced their new Classical music genre.
After hundreds of hours of music analysis by the highly trained staff at Pandora, based in Oakland, CA, the company best known for the free play approach to music streaming, announced the availability of a Classical music genre into their public music discovery engine.
Held at The Regency Center on Sutter Street in SF, tonights event was a skit/performance including cast of Tim Westergren, an on-command orchestra, individual performances by an artist with an alto? recorder, an opera singer and a totally fantastic trumpet/brass artist. Open bar and Bose as sponsors rounded out the night. Bose does have some fantastic products for computer originated sound.
Pandora knows how to throw a good party, that’s certain. With ambient red and blue light party atmosphere, roving waiters, interesting people, the evening was entertaining, interesting and a wonderful chance to salute a revolutionary company.
Pandora continues to help me find the most interesting new bands, but also now let’s me discover different older, original masters of the audio arts.
Now, enjoy a few photos.
Tim and the Pandora team kick total bootie. For realz. I hope this stupid licensing thing blows over so they can focus on the music. It’s all about the music!