I can’t put up the next part of Cosi from Glyndebourne 2006, but you can see and hear it by clicking on this link. (I’m not sure why some of these say “Embedding disabled by request”, but they do. (There’s a way I can make it work, but I’m careful to follow requests, since I [...]
Archive of entries posted on 31st January 2009
Cosi Treat
Okay, I lied … this isn’t from the Glyndebourne 2006 production. I just couldn’t start somewhere other than the beginning, even though you aren’t getting the translation with this one. (I won’t be posting every single bit of Cosi, although I’ll put up a lot, but if you want it all you can always go [...]
Speech and Rhythm can = Music
I don’t do the politics thing here, as you all know. But I just love what Henry Hey can do with music and speech. Trouble is, right after watching the video below I was talking to Dan and I could hear this piano in the background. Go figure. But really, watch it a couple of [...]
Cosi Treats
Just because I’m incredibly nice (Hah! … joking … really!) I’m going to post little “Cosi Treats”. For those of you who don’t know the opera, perhaps it will get you to attend a performance someday. I can hope …. For the most part I’m going to stick with the Glyndebourne 2006 clips, because I [...]
Advice For the Extremely Stupid
It’s a very bad and stupid idea to be talking to a student while getting ready to play something for her and putting your new and potentially great reed into your mouth. You just might hit that reed against your big stupid teeth. Okay. That is all.
“Everything is under control …
the shooter has been sawed in half.” Thus ended my dream. Such a bizarre dream, too. I was walking out of a concert I had played. I was with Blair Tindall (yes, we worked together on occasion, although it’s been some years now). Suddenly we hear a loud gunshot. I’m afraid Blair’s been shot, so [...]
BQOD
I was looking through the card section of Paperchase for something for my mother’s birthday and enjoying the Mozart violin concerto being played above me, when I heard the following: “Oooh, this music does your head in, doesn’t it.” “Oh yeah, I dunno what Border’s is thinking. It’s horrible.” I was absolutely stunned. I walked [...]