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Woman has 'loud, full body orgasm' in the middle of LA concert
The ground really moved for one woman during the second movement of the LA Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony – when she experienced a “loud and full body orgasm.”
Symphony about climate change to headline Maine festival
The organizers of the festival said they commissioned composer Lucas Richman to create a symphony about hope in the era of climate change in the Gulf of Maine.
Park Avenue Chamber Symphony lets you get up close and personal
None of the group’s members are even professional musicians.
Rustling of gum wrapper leads to 'violent attack' during symphony
The rustling of a gum wrapper during an intense performance of Mahler’s 5th Symphony in Sweden last week led to a "violent attack" in the audience after the gum-rustler smacked...
Woman screams in the middle of a live music concert
A woman screamed during a live performance of Stravinsky's “Firebird” in California, presumably after the bass drum startled her awake. The unexpected shriek sent titters across the Cascade Theatre in...
Upstarts launch breaking-news assault on Bloomberg
Wall Street’s war on Bloomberg has opened up a new front: breaking news. Rival upstarts Symphony and Money.net are racing to build out rapid-fire news services to compete with one...
Bloomberg chat rival now worth over $100M
The talk of Wall Street is worth more than ever. Symphony, the bank-backed chat and IM service, said Monday it has recently closed a $100 million round of financing. That’s...
Google bids on Bloomberg's bank-backed chat rival
Google is the talk of Wall Street — literally. The Silicon Valley behemoth has made an investment in Symphony, a bank-backed chat and data service that’s poised to rival the...
Elizabeth Warren looks to silence Symphony
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is trying to mute Symphony. Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday sent letters to six federal agencies — including the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission —...
Bloomberg routinely turns over chat records to investigators: source
The new kid on the block is making chat room inroads against stalwart Bloomberg by playing to banks’ desire for sole control of their communications. Symphony, the buzzed-about system, promises...
NY watchdog probing bank-backed messaging rival to Bloomberg
New York’s top financial regulator is probing Symphony, a messaging and communications platform backed by some of the biggest names on Wall Street, over concerns that it will allow banks...
Ex-Reuters CEO joins chorus making leap to Symphony
Symphony, the bank-backed financial communications program, is looking to Reuters to make the Bloomberg terminals mute. Tom Glocer, former CEO of Thomson Reuters and a managing partner of Angelic Ventures,...
Goldman Sachs to debut new social networking service
Call it Goldman Apps. A Goldman Sachs-backed messaging and social networking service is planning to roll out broadly to Wall Street by July, complete with its own app store for...
‘Mozart in the Jungle’ peeks behind curtain of classical music
Forget rock ‘n’ roll — Amazon’s latest dramedy is taking on the world of sex, drugs and classical music. “Mozart in the Jungle” (all 10 episodes premiere Tuesday) is a...
Goldman-led consortium invests $66M in secure messaging app
Lloyd Blankfein is watching. A consortium of 14 banks, led by Goldman Sachs, closed Wednesday on a $66 million investment into a highly secure messaging app that has a nifty...