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Aspiring opera singers visit Tech BY KELLY CLINE | news editor
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he Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech is hosting its fourth annual Vocal Arts and Music Festival in partnership with the International Vocal Arts Institute in New York. The festival provides a unique opportunity for young professionals to gain an edge in their field and focus on their skills as performers. “They usually go to a huge metropolitan area like New York and train with the best instructors they can get for this time period when they are in their twenties or early thirties,” said Heather Ducote, Director of Marketing and Communications at the Center for the Arts. “But when they’re selected to come here, they get all kinds of all-day (access) to instruction that they would never get in their usual routine in New York.” Founded by Joan Dornemann and Paul Nadler of the Metropolitan Opera, the International Vocal Arts Institute provides aspiring performers with world-class instructors at an affordable rate. see OPERA / page two
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Visiting opera singers perform alongside their instructors in Squires Studio Theatre. The concert is one of several held each session.
IMAX theater plan approved for First & Main CARLA CRAFT lifestyles editor
The Blacksburg Town Council is moving forward with plans to build an IMAX movie theater in the First & Main shopping center by spring 2014. A unanimous 7-0 vote on Tuesday, June 12, approved the plan for Frank Theatres Cinebowl and Grille. Groundbreaking will begin with a ceremony on Thursday, June 13, at 10 a.m. First & Main has struggled economically since its opening in 2008 due to the recession. It was first owned by Wachovia, and then by
Wells Fargo until it was purchased by Blacksburg APF Partners. “The Cinebowl will provide a significant traffic draw which will help anchor (First & Main),” said Jeff Mitchell, General Counsel to Blacksburg APF Partners. “It will stabilize First & Main and businesses already there, provide a significant tax (dollar) base and hopefully provide a broader spectrum of entertainment for families in Blacksburg.” Blacksburg APF Partners and the Blacksburg Town Council believe that the Cinebowl and Grille will create an entertainment destination for Blacksburg and for the
whole region. “People who live an hour or two away will come to watch an IMAX movie. It will bring in tax dollars for Blacksburg,” said Sutphin. In the past, the idea of a multifaceted entertainment venue was cause for concern for homeowners on nearby Kennedy Avenue. According to Sutphin, Blacksburg APF Partners worked with the homeowners and found ways to control noise and lighting, so that the center will not interfere with privacy. With the addition of the Cinebowl and Grill, Blacksburg will now be home to two movie theaters.
Michael Sutphin, Blacksburg Town Council Member, doesn’t believe the building of the Cinebowl will pose any threat to the historic Lyric Theater in Downtown Blacksburg. “The Lyric will be fi ne. Th is type of theater (Cinebowl) will attract a different customer base,” said Sutphin. “The Blacksburg community is large enough to be able to support both. The community still supports the Lyric, in addition to this new theater.” The Cinebowl and Grille will include an 11 screen movie theater with IMAX technology, a bowling alley and a bar and restaurant. It is expected to open in May 2014.
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Opera: International performers appreciate Tech
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“I don’t even know what I would do if this didn’t exist,” said Patricia Westley, a 2013 graduate from Carnegie Mellon University and a soprano singer. “We could go to New York and have these lessons for like $200 an hour or go into a university... but this is like a hub or a mecca of everyone you could possibly want to study with.” Singers receive training for several different skills including language, staging, and vocalization from worldrenowned performers like Don Upshaw, Ruth Falcon and Sherrill Milnes — many of which are personal idols of participants. Most singers agree that the biggest benefit of the festival is the invaluable relationships with instructors and the friendships with other participants which form during the program. “I don’t think you really can get this experience anywhere else,” said Bryn Holdsworth, a soprano singer from New Jersey currently studying at the Manhattan School of Music. “You make the best friendships. The relationships that you make with people I think is the most rewarding thing.” Young singers come from all over the world to audition in New York for International Vocal Arts Institute founders,
and then are selected for one or more of the three international festivals. Blacksburg is the only U.S. location, while others are held in Montreal and Tel Aviv. Blacksburg, however, is becoming a favorite location among participants. “I love Blacksburg. Honestly. I was so excited to come back,” said Westley. “I got into the Montreal program and I emailed them and was like, ‘Can I please come to Blacksburg again?’ The peo-
ple are so nice and everyone who comes to our concerts is just so into it. The audience is packed every single night we do something, and that’s just so special.” Singers also particularly enjoy the beauty of the area surrounding Tech. “I know this campus is gorgeous,” said Naomi Johns, an Australian soprano singer with a bachelor of music from the University of Sydney. “We don’t have anything like this in Australia. Everything here
is beautiful. It looks like a picture. And the grounds are gorgeous. (I’m a) big fan of the duck pond.” The festival will feature performances and events almost daily during the whole program, June 6-22. One of such performances is a production of Susannah, which the singers are preparing for with its creator, Carlisle Floyd, who flew from New York to rehearse with participants. “Obviously I think that all the singers are aiming for a
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gold medal career,” said Pnini Grubner, a bass singer from Israel currently studying in the PSD program at the Mannes New School for Music in New York City. “(A) gold medal career means to sing in the Metropolitan Opera and sing all over Europe and in big opera houses. “When I’m with the best people in the industry, it obviously makes me perform better, sing better and want to improve all the time.”
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of suppressing one’s animalistic urges,” said Chicago Sun-Times reporter Simon Abrams, “‘The Purge’ is just a product of uninspired filmmaking.” Things just tend to happen in “The Purge,” and by the end of the movie, the audience is left with only one question: so what? JESS GROVES - lifestyles staff writer - junior - communication major
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time. Going to the movies is pretty much a two-hour affair nowadays, but “The Purge” tries to pack in a lot of suspense and story into just 85 minutes. In that short time, the movie couldn’t decide if it was a social commentary on the glorification of violence in American culture or a new horror thriller story. However, more time might not have helped the film’s success. “Instead of being a creepy B-movie about the necessity
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I could sum up “The Purge” in three words, they would be “what a waste.” I’m not talking about the violence or the body count here, folks. I mean the movie itself. Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey star as James and Mary Sandin, two parents who are trying to get their family ready for the Purge – a twelve-hour period where the new American government shuts down emergency services, allowing all crime to proceed uninhibited. The Sandins are a wealthy family who can afford to protect themselves against the Purge. Unlike many who get stuck on the lawless streets that night, the Sandins are safely barricaded in their own home. The family plans to watch the night unfold on television as if it was the Super Bowl until a bloody stranger comes to their door for help. As the family tries to avoid becoming as murderous as the rest of the community, the trouble begins. Spending the Purge indoors might not save the Sandins from being murdered or becoming killers after all. Unlike Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s tonguein-cheek “The Cabin In The Woods,” the Purge takes itself too seriously. Numerous plotlines leave plenty of room for suspense and twists, but the opportunities never get taken. What starts as an intriguing, slightly Hunger Games-esque premise turns into another cookie-cutter horror movie. One of the problems with “The Purge” is the short screen
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Tech rugby competes in first championship RACHEL FRANKS
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After a remarkable season, Virginia Tech’s sevens club rugby team played in the Collegiate Rugby Championships (CRC) in Philadelphia for the first time in program history. The Hokies were one of 20 teams selected to participate in the sevens championship that was broadcast by NBC from May 31-June 2. “It’s a huge deal,” said Andy Richards, head coach. “Simply because it is exposure on the national stage, it was broadcast on NBC TV. I think it’s going to be big going forward.” The team made it to the championships after winning the sevens Atlantic Coast Rugby Championship (ACRC) in the fall. The ACRC was held in Virginia Beach, and the teams had to play through Hurricane Sandy. Tech beat Virginia in a thrilling final, winning 33-31. The win automatically qualified the Hokies for the CRC. In the CRC the Hokies were put in to a pool with Cal, Temple and Kutztown for a round robin to start the tournament. First, Tech played Cal, a varsity team, and suffered a tough 45-7 loss. Cal went on to win the entire tournament. In their next game the Hokies came up with an incredible comeback, scoring three times in the last two minutes to beat Temple 17-15. “Starting off against Temple on Saturday we were suffering from a little stage fright,” Richards said. “It was the first time we had been on that big of a venue before. The guys struggled a little bit at first, but we came back. We pulled it out in the final minutes. We got a little bit of life and it showed us what guts and determination will do.” Later that day Tech took on Kutztown. The Hokies ended up getting shut out by the Bears 55-0. That was the last game in pool play. Tech finished third in their pool and moved on to play for the bowl trophy, which was against four the other teams that also finished
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Virginia Tech junior Andrew Haskell (15) runs past a pair University of Florida players. Tech went on to win the game with a score of 19-15. third in the pools. To start things off, the Hokies won a close game over Florida 19-15, to move on to the bowl fi nals. Unfortunately, Tech then lost 17-12 to Nebraska to end their season. The team had a great time in Philadelphia and was very excited about the support they got from Hokie nation. “Our crowd was phenomenal,” said Matt Murray, Vice President. “We had a crowd packed with at least 400 fans, and they were one of the loudest fan bases there. Just being able to run out on the field and play in front of a crowd like that was incredibly special.” The club rugby team also has a fifteens team that had a good season. The difference between sevens and fi fteens is in the number of men on the field and the time of the match. Sevens is faster paced, higher scoring and will be in the 2016 Olympics. Fifteens is more traditional and popular outside of the United States. The Hokies fifteens team will
start playing in the fall next year, but played in the spring this year. They went 6-2 and almost made it to the championships as well, but lost a heartbreaker to Clemson in the finals. “We had a good season, but it was disappointing looking back because we should have gone to the national championships for the fifteens too,” Murray said. The team is excited to be able to play fifteens matches on Friday nights in the fall next year. Richards hopes to attract Hokie fans that come to Blacksburg for Saturday football games to increase the rugby team’s ever-growing fan base. The sevens season in the spring is also looking bright for Tech. The team will be losing five seniors, but Richards anticipations bring in some new good players from winter tryouts. “We are trying to attract some crossover athletes who aren’t doing anything next
spring,” Richards said. “What springs to mind immediately is football players who are seniors who are finished playing football and are not going to the NFL draft. We are certainly going to be reaching out to them because we are going to have a tryout in January where we will invite anybody to come out and play for us.” He hopes the new professional rugby league being developed in the U.S. by the NFL and English Premiership Rugby League will bring in more top notch athletes that want a chance to play a pro sport when they graduate. Increasing support from Tech has also contributed to the success and growth of the rugby program. The university provides some money for the team through rec sports, but most of its support comes through the use of facilities. The rugby team is allowed to use McComas — they receive special instruction from trainers and access to exercise classes. Tech also provides the
field the team plays on. They are working on returfing the field and adding a new score board for next year. Richards feel the Rugby team gives back and supports Tech in return. He has been studying the guys who try out for the team over the past couple of years and found an increase in experienced players coming to Tech. “Now kids are coming here and half of them have played rugby before,” Richards said. “Not only that, but half of them are making decisions to come to Virginia Tech and one of the influences on that is our rugby team. Sure they want to be an engineer, but they are actually choosing us over other places because of our rugby program. It is helping the school with admissions that’s for sure.” Looking forward to next year, the program’s goals are to win another ACRC and play well enough to earn another trip back to the championships.
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ccording to an article released by CNN this past weekend, a fouryear-old child shot his father accidently with a handgun. The father, revealed as Justin Thomas (35), and his fouryear-old son were visiting his former roommate at his home in Prescott Valley, Az. when his son allegedly found a loaded handgun and wondered what it was. After showing the gun to his father and the former roommate, he pulled the trigger, fatally wounding his father. Thomas was declared dead upon arrival at their local hospital. I find this to be an extremely disturbing situation. When reading the comment boards, I found it quite sad that some people would truly blame the kid for what happened. One commenter said, “Lock him up. Murder is murder.” The child is only four years old, and for obvious reasons, he can not fully understand nor comprehend what happened at his age. This acci-
dental shooting will haunt him for the rest of his life, which in my opinion is punishment enough. The article states that the former roommate was not expecting company, but at the same time, why was a handgun left out in the open in the first place? With the gun control debates still looming, this type of situation does not help any argument for the right to bear arms. I have always been outspoken about the shortcomings of gun control and firearms bans. However, hearing about scenarios like this certainly put a few major predicaments into perspective. One of the largest of these predicaments is gun safety. I feel that anyone who purchases any type of firearm should be forced to take a course regarding firearm safety. These courses should be sponsored by the police force or other firearms experts to edify gun owners on local and federal laws, mandates, proper maintenance procedures and places
to and not to keep a gun. It does not take a genius to realize that if a gun is at a child’s eye level, they may just want to play with it. When there is a gun in the household, it should either be locked up or not loaded. This entire situation would have been prevented if this man had followed proper safety procedures. Many will state that it is his house and he can leave his belongings wherever he chooses. That may be the case, but when you allow someone into your own residence, you are responsible for what happens to the people that enter. His guests did show up with no warning, according to the article. But excuses are cheap when a man’s life is taken by a four-year-old who knew no better than to play with the resident’s weapon. RYAN TURK -regular columnist -
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the third day of the draft . Eddie Campbell is also headed out west, after the Seattle Mariners took him in the 15th round with the 447th pick. Th is is Campbell’s second selection in the draft , and the 15th round must seem like a big improvement from his 44th round position with Cincinnati last season. Campbell may not have had a stellar regular season, but there’s no doubt that his gritty postseason performance helped his cause. The Hokies may have lost the ACC title game against North Carolina, but it was no fault of Campbell’s after he threw seven strong innings, allowing only two runs to the conference champs. Fellow starter Joe Mantiply became the fi rst Hokie to ever be selected in the draft three different times when the Detroit Tigers took him in the 27th round with the 816th pick. The New York Mets drafted Mantiply out of high school, while the Philadelphia Phillies chose him last year, but now he’ll look to stick with the Tigers. see DRAFT / page ten
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The 2013 MLB Draft was a bittersweet one for the Hokies. Although the baseball team had six players selected in the draft , the highest since eight were taken in 2010, the squad loses the core of a team that just produced one of the best seasons in team history. Chad Pinder was the team’s biggest star throughout the season, and MLB teams clearly took notice. The Oakland Athletics took him in the second round with the 71st overall pick, making him the seventhhighest draft ed Hokie in history. Pinder’s combination of defensive prowess and offensive productivity earned him the high selection, and although he slipped a little in the draft after a subpar performance in the NCAA Tournament, he still has an excellent shot of reaching the big leagues someday. Oakland is no stranger to Virginia Tech athletes and their emphasis on developing home grown players over splashy free agents
should give Pinder a very real chance to advance through the farm system quickly. Outfi elder Tyler Horan would have to wait six more rounds to hear his name called, but he too is now California bound after the San Francisco Giants selected him in the eighth round with the 252nd overall pick. The selection makes Horan the 14th-highest selected Tech player in school history, and it’s clear the Giants were impressed with his offensive abilities. He’s never been a stellar defensive outfielder, but his prodigious .342 batting average and .603 slugging percentage last year more than make up for it. Pitcher Jake Joyce will stay a little closer to home after the Washington Nationals called his name in the ninth round with the 286th overall pick. While his 4.16 ERA may have been a little high for some teams’ liking, he steadily increased his strikeout numbers every year, culminating with a total of 56 this season to catch the Nats’ attention. Th ree more Hokies got a chance at the big leagues on
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Chad Pinder (5) warms up before stepping up to the plate against Oklahoma in an NCAA regional game.
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Taking a moment with the music man CATHERINE ROYKA
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It’s an impressive list: countless music awards, part of a nationally recognized trio, Virginia Tech fi ne arts and music professor, active department member, husband and father. Alan Weinstein does it all. “Well, I’ll let you know if I survive next year once the CD comes out,” he said with a laugh, referring to his professional piano ensemble, the Kandinsky Trio, whose CD will be out early this summer. “It gets harder and harder to manage the older I get. I feel like I have two full-time jobs sometimes with the trio and full-time here, various department committees and teaching as well. I want to help though, I want to step up.” Weinstein has dedicated his time to professing the importance of culture and the value of music by engaging students in his creativity and aesthetics course and also teaching cello and bass. “I think that he is really passionate about what he does,” said Alyssa Hughes, a sophomore marketing and management major. “Many people have to take the class to fill a requirement, but he makes the class enjoyable. He takes topics that students aren’t familiar with and relates them to the world.” Through his ability to enrich students, Weinstein received the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching last year. “It is a fairly competitive award. Now I am on the committee that chooses the next candidate, and it is a pretty intense process. I was shocked, surprised and thrilled when I received the award,” Weinstein said. Even at a young age, Weinstein was intrigued by music. Growing up in Bethesda, Maryland gave Weinstein great accessibility to a variety of musical genres. “The Washington D.C. area in the ’70s was this amazing hotbed of musical styles going on at once. It was a great city for chamber music, jazz, bluegrass, great rock and roll and classical music. There were concerts all the time.”
These influences helped inspire Weinstein to pursue his musical career throughout college. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music for approximately two years, then lived in Europe and joined an orchestra in Berlin, came back to the states and finished his undergraduate degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston. For his graduate career, he attended Rice University and played in an Honors String Quartet before fi nishing his degree at Eastman School of Music in New York. Weinstein came to Tech fulltime in 2003 to take the assistant professor position for cello and bass and the jazz ensemble. The creativity and aesthetics course Weinstein teaches, elaborates on the history of fine arts and its explanation of human experience. The course includes participation and visual experience outside of the classroom. Students must attend multiple events while taking the class, which include a Tech theater performance and a local band. “Professor Weinstein was my favorite part of the class because I felt he made it interesting for all the students, even those who took it is as a grade booster,” Christina Le, a sophomore majoring in business in technology explained. “I think more people enjoyed the class than they thought they would.” The new fine arts center being built on campus has sparked interest for Weinstein who hopes the fine arts program will expand the department of music. “Oh, it’s going to be incredible. Trust me, when you walk in, it will give you chills.” Weinstein believes this new arts center will help enrich those in the Blacksburg and Tech community. “I think art fights celebrity culture in a lot of ways because it takes reflection. It is not about money and it is not about fame. You get that in art, but the basic principle is really kind of the antithesis to that. I think you need things in your life that make you think about your relationship to other humans and the reason we are here, that’s where art forces you to reflect.”
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Finally, pitcher Colin O’Keefe got the good news in the 33rd round when the Los Angeles Angels took him with the 997th pick. O’Keefe didn’t see much action this year, pitching in just 5.2 innings all season, and his status as a junior almost guarantees he’ll return to school for his senior year. The six selections raised the total number of Hokies drafted to 84, but many observers were surprised the count wasn’t just a little bit higher. Both closer Clark Labitan and outfielder Andrew Rash put together notable careers as Hokies, yet neither heard their name called in the draft. Rash has a serious hitting stroke, and although his defense has always been questionable, most still thought he’d get a shot at the next level. Similarly, Labitan rebound-
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ed from a terrible 2011 season with two years of quality relief pitching that certainly could’ve earned a look from a big league team. Despite all these players’ individual successes or failures, the baseball team still faces an uphill battle to replace the departing stars. The team’s lineup will not be nearly as potent without Pinder, Horan and Rash, leaving catcher/outfielder Mark Zagunis as the last true offensive threat in the order. Similarly, the pitching staff will be greatly depleted without Mantiply in the rotation and Joyce and Labitan in the bullpen. Starters Devin Burke and Brad Markey will have to step up in a big way if the team expects to remain competitive in the ACC. Coach Pete Hughes built an unexpected powerhouse in Blacksburg, but now that the major leagues have started to take notice, keeping it up will be the real test.
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Tech wins hammer throw Virginia Tech freshman Tomas Kruzliak won Tech’s sixth hammer throw national championship on Thursday. Kruzliak started out the day on top in the fi rst fl ight throwing a 226-1(68.92m) to put him ahead of his competitors. On his second throw he increased his lead by throwing the winning mark of 227-3(69.26m). On his third throw of the meet, Kruzliak
fouled and had to wait for the final fl ight to begin throwing again. He was not able to beat his second throw, but neither was anyone else. None of the other athletes even passed the 69-meter mark. Th is was the freshman’s fi rst national championship and Tech’s third consecutive hammer throw title.
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12 June 13, 2013
Apple unveils iOS 7, iTunes Radio PATRICK MAY
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There was so much hightech eye candy on stage at Apple Inc.’s developers conference Monday that the Moscone West audience seemed to be riding a collective sugar high. More than 5,000 developers feasted on a slideshow smorgasbord of brightly colored displays and gee-whiz features from the new iOS 7 soft ware that will soon power millions of iPhones and iPads around the world. And while this soft ware-centric confab elicited few of the fi reworks that accompany Apple product launches, CEO Tim Cook and his bluejeaned lieutenants wowed the crowd at the 24th annual Worldwide Developers Conference with a steady string of new upgrades. “Our goal is to make great products that enrich peoples’ lives,” Cook told an almost
punch-drunk crowd that showered the CEO with adoration befitting a rock star. “These are the values that drive us. They’re reflected in our products over the years, and they’re reflected in the products we’re announcing this morning.” While Apple, as expected, did unveil an ad-supported music-streaming feature called iTunes Radio, as well as a new MacBook Air and an upgraded operating system for its Mac line of desktop and laptop computers, most of the two hours were devoted to multiple innovations in Apple’s mobile operating system. Th is significant soft ware design should give Apple fans three new things: more power, more battery life, and less navigational “friction” as they continue to incorporate mobile devices in their daily lives. “Th is transition from iOS 6 to 7 is quite significant in
terms of creating a brand new user interface,” said analyst Ben Bajarin with Creative Strategies. “Th is is a fundamental rethink of design and functionality and it’s much more consumer-friendly. It’s a great foundation for Apple to build upon.” On stage, Apple executives said much the same thing with their trademark greatest-show-on-earth enthusiasm. Beginning with the opening video, in which Apple creative guru Jony Ive provided a voice-over homage to making products more simple and elegant, the presentation was fi lled with Cook’s pronouncements of how much users will love iOS 7, which is set to be released in the fall. And judging by the repeated peals of applause from the developers, they may be right. The audience reaction to features in both iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, the new operating system for the Mac
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Apple executive Eddy Cue introduces iTunes Radio to developers. coming this fall, was strong. Siri, the voice-activated digital assistant, will be even smarter, the company said, and sport a much more human-sounding voice. Call up the North Pole on the iPhone’s weather app, and you’ll see falling snow in the background. The camera will now switch from video to still to panoramic mode simply with the swipe of a fi nger. In one of the more widely expected announcements, Apple’s senior vice president Eddy Cue unveiled the company’s new music-streaming service called iTunes Radio. The service, which will compete with similar services from Pandora, Spotify and Google, will be free to users but ad-supported. An ad-free version will be available to iTunes Match subscribers who pay an annual fee of $24.99. Calling it the “best music player we have ever done,” Cue said the service will start in the United States before being unveiled in other countries. Much like its rivals, the service will allow users to create their own stations and share them with friends. Even though many still question whether Apple without Steve Jobs can continue to truly innovate —
and tellingly the company has gone months now without a significant new product launch — the show Monday seemed to be channeling Jobs’ kid-in-a-candy-store excitement about everything Apple touches. Following the announcement of the new Mac operating system, named Mavericks after the world-famous surfing spot off California’s Half Moon Bay, it was the unveiling of iOS 7 that provided the biggest bang of the morning. Analyst Avi Greengart with New Jersey-based Current Analysis was on hand for the show and he said users will be blown away by the new iOS 7 features, starting with the way the iPhone’s home screen appearance will magically change as the user moves the gadget around, enabling the viewer to essentially “look behind” the icons. “That tilt factor will provide a very pleasing initial reaction that’ll be huge,” he said. “But the true and more important improvements to OS 7 are the multitask feature, which will keep apps running in the background and allow users to swipe back and forth instead of having to go back to the home page as you do now. That’s a real pain point for people.”