HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I’ve never made much of the changing of a number—the new year begins in September for me. First I was a student and of course that meant school beginning in September. San Jose Symphony (RIP) always began the new season in September. So does Opera San José. Then I had kids and of [...]
Someone landed at my other site because he or she did a search on the authors among us. I was curious how that got the person to my site so I googled as well. Ah-hah! It’s a goofy poem I wrote. I’ll post it here, just so you can see what the heck I was [...]
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
-Aristotle
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The concerts listed here include a trio of two oboes and English horn (Beethoven: Variations on Mozart’s “La Ci Darem” from Don Giovanni). You might want to check the link out! Robin May and Peter Lemberg are on oboe, and James Matheson is on English horn.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams
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… we musicians need help understanding why people behave the way they do at concerts. Sometimes they are noisy and we are befuddled. Sometimes they answer cell phones or their watches go off and they continue to let them beep. Sometimes they don’t act the way we think they should and that bugs us. And [...]
ACB wrote to say she did the face recognition thing, and I will admit to jealousy. I did it again with another couple of pictures. So far, I’m mostly male. There you go. Danielle (correction: DANIEL. Sorry! I guess I wanted to at least make him a bit more feminine.) Radcliffe. Areil Sharon. And more. [...]
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
-Paul Hindemith
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So … I look like Ella Fitzgerald? I can’t imagine that to be true, but some face recognition software suggests that is one face that is similar to mine. The first face it suggested was some man. Sigh. But I’ll take Ella any day.
Try it out for yourself.
Here’s the picture I used:
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We went on a mini-vacation (one overnight) to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary.
Yep. You read that right … THIRTY years, come this January 3rd.
It was an infant wedding of course. ;-)
We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium today, and I can do without any new-agey-sounds-like-good-under-water music for a good long time! But the fish [...]
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I responded to both ACB and TD who had left me nice messages on my Woo Hoo post. But since they may not read that, here it is again:
Thanks to both ACB and TD! It has, indeed, been a wonderful non-Nut few days. Of course when I reached #14 I realized I could easily have [...]
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
-Louise de la Ramee Ouida
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Wrong Note!
-Mom (said from the kitchen many a time, when I was practicing piano in the living room)
Love you, Mom! :-)
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… just go buy A Toolbox Christmas. You won’t get the entire Nutcracker, but you’ll get the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Isn’t that enough? You can hear a few short samples of the music, and you can see the complete playlist.
FIrst spotted via The Well-Tempered Blog.
Or shoot … just go out to your [...]
I would like to wish you all a very
WARM AND WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!
Christmas blessings to you all.
You shouldn’t mix fairy tales with liverwurst and buttermilk.
-Betty, on White Christmas
(I like neither, so no worries here.)
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I have heard no Tchaikovsky at all today. How nice! I did think of my colleagues at about 1:35, when the ballet was probably about to begin. And I did keep my phone on just in case my sub didn’t show up; that happened to me once … I can’t remember if I told the [...]
ZERO!!!
And if you don’t know what I’m talking about … you lose! ;-)
This carol is just too much fun! (Sing it! I did so for my daughter and if I can, so can you!)
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Well, you know this is an oboe site, but sometimes I just have to move outside the oboe world for a moment. Go here to see some incredible stuff. Magic always baffles me, and this is especially amazing to me. (And please don’t tell me how he does this stuff because I don’t want to [...]
That’s right … TWO more shows to go for me. (While those who are willing to work on December 24 will have one more.) Time has really sped by this year.
I still have my cold … lucky me … but it isn’t so bad that I can’t play. So that’s good.
Playing Nutcracker isn’t all [...]
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.
-Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (attributed)
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I spell my first name with a y. A good number of people don’t realize that, and of course it’s easy to make that “i” mistake. But even some of my family members don’t realize this fact that has been so for 49 years, one month, and three days. But now I have made it [...]
My Nutcracker poem has been posted at the Beyond magazine blog! How about that?!
But now I wonder; should I put it up here as well, or should I just suggest you click on the link above? Such a dilemma.
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I’m wondering now if I don’t have allergies, but instead have a cold that came [...]
