One rule of the copyright act, familiar to Pandora users, is that for "noninteractive" streams that resemble radio, a user cannot pick exactly what songs are listened to — only a channel or stream, with songs programmed by someone else.
For this album TV on the Radio traded its noisiness for clarity, the better to reveal the workings of its ambitious, multilayered songs: programming and hands-on playing, rock and funk, elegies and dance grooves, accusations and embraces.
And try this: twiddling the console-mounted M.M.I. knob — it now functions as a joystick, too — lets you preview the songs, programs and artists playing on every satellite radio station, without having to change the channel until a title catches your eye.
On Tuesday Mr. Dargel will reprise selections from "Removable Parts," a 2007 cycle, for a New York Festival of Song program assembled by the composer Phil Kline.
Now 28, Mr. Maltman made his United States debut on Friday night in a song program with the fine pianist Malcolm Martineau at Weill Recital Hall.
A music review on Thursday about a New York Festival of Song program at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, for which the composer Kevin Puts was the curator, misstated, in some editions, the date of the premiere of his opera, "Silent Night," by the Minnesota Opera.
STEPHEN HOLDEN Correction: November 12, 2001, Monday Because of an editing error, a brief pop review on Saturday about a song program at Feinstein's at the Regency misspelled the surname of a guest singer.
Saturday has a triple bill: in the afternoon there will be "Very Young Composers"; at 5 p.m. the violinist Elmira Darvarova and the pianist Shoko Inoue play works by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Franck; and at 8 p.m. the acclaimed soprano Carole Farley, with friends, presents an "Art of the American Song" program.
When performing the song Program, Simeon would dial back and forth to differnt radio stations called out by the audience and incorporate their sounds into the song.
Chuck Darrow of the Philadelphia Media Network wrote, "Beyonce's name might have been the one on the ticket for the two-hour, 27-song program, but those responsible for its design and staging deserve as much credit as anyone.
