The Buzz 1: “Music is the shorthand of emotion” (Leo Tolstoy). “Hell is full of musical amateurs” (George Bernard Shaw). “The only truth is music” (Jack Kerouac). The Buzz 2: In 1930, Albert Einstein met with Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore in Caputh, Germany, to discuss the nature of music… Einstein served as the vice president of the Princeton Symphony from 1952 until he died in 1955… During a 1929 Saturday Evening Post interview, Einstein said that, had he not been a scientist, he would have been a musician. (www.cbc.ca) The Buzz 3: “New technology in music has changed the way we listen to music and the ways we create music…from synthesizers to DAWs …from CD players to iPhones….” (interestingengineering.com) The Buzz 4: “The future of music in the digital age is focused on how streaming services will differentiate themselves from the competition, how artists will reach their fanbase, and revisiting popular music industry trends of the past with innovations, such as the modern record player.” (victrola.com/blogs) We’ll ask Serge Hoffmann, Nelson Malleus, Matt Champion and Eric Zorgniotti for their take on The Future of Musicians, Music and Technology: The Sweetest Sounds?!