I don’t think criticism should pretend any longer, if it ever did, that the critic represents the voice of truth.
-Anne Midgette
I read it here.
I wish the general public understood this!
Astor Piazzolla-Tango Suite
arr. Fraser Jackson
Harlequin Quartet
… and the Monkees! Cool!
Spinndrift:
Dress rehearsal of insane oboe sonata tomorrow. Maslanka should only be reserved for weekdays…
More than 20 students donated their brains to science for a day to help unravel its structure by listening to classical music.
Over the past decade, the Music Dynamics Lab on the Boca campus has been using an fMRI machine — a huge magnet that uses radio-frequency radiation to create images of the body — to peek inside FAU students’ brains while making them listen to Chopin. They used the results to try to determine how music affects the brain.
The start of this article cracked me up. Notice that the writer used “making them” rather than “letting them” or “having them”. So it did make me laugh.
It goes on:
The research team, led by psychology professor Ed Large, developed a new method for studying human emotions last year by looking at what music does to your brain, while you’re listening to it and long-term.
Until now, emotion research has tended to only allow scientists to show subjects single pictures, but the FAU researchers created a way to use long samples of music while analyzing their brains.
So check out the rest of the article. It’s interesting! At least my brain thinks so.
Two for one today, when someone is advising another person on an instrument to choose:
Not oboe – too much back pressure. (turns ‘em all loony). Did you learn an instrument?
followed by:
Er, I’m sure it’s only playing oboe for longer than 4 yrs that sends you loony.
Read on Craigslist:
I am looking for a full-size viola, bow, and case in exchange for a unused clementine colored standing mixer and unused clementine colored hand mixer.
The convention is scheduled for February 17-20, 2012. Repertoire audition information is now available!. Below is the information for oboists:
HIGH SCHOOL:
OBOE
Sonata in G Minor from Tafelmusik, G.P. Telemann, ed. Bergmann-(Schott)
II. Presto: Beginning to beat 3 in m. 36
III. Andante: All
IV. Allegro: m. 27 to End (take 2nd ending)
ENGLISH HORN Etude #39 from Ferling 48 Famous Studies (Southern)
*Note: Students auditioning on English Horn must play the required scales and submit a complete Oboe audition
JUNIOR HIGH:
OBOE
Andante and Allegro, J.B. Loeillet
from Concert & Contest Collection (if you want the piano part as well go here)
Compiled and Edited by H. Voxman (Rubank)
All (no repeat
Too darn wonderful! Sorry I can’t see how to put the translation there … when I watched it on Facebook there was a place to click and then the English translation was below. But you get the idea just from watching, I’m sure!
J.S. Bach: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden
Ton Koopman, conductor; Hans-Christoph Rademann, chorus master; RIAS Kammerchor; Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
My Jesus I Love Thee
Guitarist’s first name is Dale, but I can’t find his last (maybe he’ll see this and fill me in!)
James MacMillan: Mitte Manum Tuam
Blossom Street Singers; Hilary Campbell, Conductor
Mitte manum tuam, et cognosce loca clavorum, alleluia: et noli esse incredulus, sed fidelis, alleluia, alleluia.
Stretch forth your hand, and feel the place where the nails were, alleluia; and be not doubtful but believing, alleluia, alleluia.
Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins will appear at two concerts in the U.K. in July to present his own music for the first time plus scores from several of his films performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
The Welsh-born actor will present scores he has written including those for August (1996) and Slipstream (2007), which he also directed and starred in, and a new piece that he has written especially for the Birmingham orchestra.
Hopkins said, “There are themes and passages in these pieces that have been several decades in the making, and to bring them all vividly to life with one of the great symphony orchestras of the world is absolutely thrilling.”
Found here.
Fourteen, in fact. Wow!
Canticle of Earth by Dan Kellogg
World Premiere, 22 February 2011. University of Colorado, College of Music Bassoon Studio, Yoshi Ishikawa Director. Conducted by Allan McMurray. Players from L-R: Kent Hurd, Yahaira Nieves, Michael Christoph, Amanda Hoffer, Shih-han Chiu, Kaori Uno, Patty Fagan, Michelle Jones, Matt Cullen, Kristen Gogan, Brian Jack, Cody Dean, YoonJoo Hwang, Ben Cefkin
Singer John Legend was in Washington to sing at the White House on Thursday but he had a few choice words for the politicians in town, too.
Legend told reporters before an evening concert celebrating Motown’s music that too often the arts are the first thing to go when budgets need to be cut.
“People fought to give me – a millionaire – a tax cut this year,” he said. “I didn’t need it. And all the other millionaires didn’t need it either.”
The singer said he’d benefited from cultural organizations such as community choirs and arts councils in earlier years, which often suffer when budgets get trimmed.
“I hope our politicians will not think that they are expendable and they can just get rid of them and nobody will feel the pain,” he said. “Because I think society will feel the pain.”
He added: “I’m really frustrated with some of the discourse that’s coming out of Washington.”
I read it here.
