Go check out this blog entry by Eric Edberg. Yikes! Was this someone’s idea of a joke, or did they really label the piano keys that way?
Sort of scary to think about, you know?
… what makes it classical? (As you recall, I pondered this when it was announced that Madonna was writing classical music.)
Read online:
Tori Amos describes her classical music album in the most Tori Amos-y way possible
and
Tori Amos announces classical album and UK tour dates
(The first is here.)
If you go here you can find the top 10 reasons to support the arts.
Hmmm. How about “Arts feed the soul”? How about “Arts are absolutely out of this world incredible”? How about “Arts hit me in the gut like nothing else”?
Just some of my ideas ….
I can’t embed it here, so you’ll just have to go here to listen to the two friends.
… and now at least one of you (you know who you are!) will comment saying, “You don’t really fall for this ranking thing, do you?” and then I reply, “Not really, but still….” (So now you can neglect to comment and I won’t respond; see how easy that was?) But I was higher a while back. Now I’m dropping. I wish my weight would drop too. It only seems fair, you know?
I’m not nearly as well known as Robert Orth, but I once wrote a wacky bio too. Sadly I threw mine away. You would have loved to hate it. Really. But his is online (just click the link). Enjoy!
I have a few hours before I teach, and then I head on out to the first ballet rehearsal. I’d be watching a Giants game, but the darn things aren’t going to be on a station we have all that often this year, it appears. Rats!
So instead I guess I’ll relax and kick back and all that jazz. Or spend hours on the computer. You guess which. ;-)
Meanwhile, check out Matthew Curran’s blog entry about last week. I always love it when there’s another blogger out there writing about events I write about; it’s fun to read other people’s perspectives and all. And he, after all, was one of the stars of the “show”!
I’ve been interviewed by a blogger. You can read my goofiness here.
Thanks, Sebastian, for including me at your site! :-)
Eight international trips in twenty-six years isn’t a lot by today’s standards but, for a woman of her time and circumstances, it represented a concerted effort to experience new lands and cultures.
I am 54. I have taken one international trip. Period. Will I take another before I die? I honestly don't know! Dan and I have never talked seriously about a trip. Ever.
I read the above at Lawrence Dillon’s blog and it’s not really a travel blog. Check it out.
Meanwhile I think I’ll spend a little time feeling sorry for myself.
Okay. Done now. I think I just wasn’t meant to travel. Or go on vacations. Go figure.
I don’t understand why these sites I’ve linked to below exist, but I sometime check to see who lands here and why, and occasionally — okay, actually very rarely — I find a link from one of these places. Here are a couple:
Classical Music Matters
Chamber Musician Today
Instant Encore Buzz
Now the “why” of all this isn’t all that clear to me. Do these people put these things together so they don’t have to blog, but have lots of content? Do they do it because they were reading all of these blogs themselves and thought it would be fun to put together a site? Do they get income off of all of our writing somehow? I honestly don’t know! I guess I don’t mind them posting my blog entries. One asked permission. The others did not. Since being on them my hits haven’t changed, so they aren’t bringing me many, if any, visitors. I do wish that all of them would only post a portion and send them over here. They do provide a link to my blog, but some feature the entire entry so I might not get the reader to check out the blog — egotistical of me to even wish for that, I know! — but we can’t always get what we wish for, eh?
There’s a wonderful article on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in Opera News. Please do read it. If you never heard her live, at least get her recordings. When I hear her voice I am always brought to tears.
I’ve probably posted all of these before. They are worth posting again.
How To Propose To Your Girlfriend: MNOrch Edition
So, last week, shortly after I started hurling free concert tickets around the internets, I got the sweetest e-mail from a band teacher down near Rochester, Minnesota, who didn’t want to ask for his tickets on the blog, lest a certain someone see his request…
I just read your posting regarding this Friday’s concert. My girlfriend and I are huge fans (and frequent guests of MnOrch). Her favorite symphony is Dvorak’s 8th, and I have been planning on proposing to her following this concert since the schedule came out last winter. A free ticket would be a wonderful addition to our night; she has NO IDEA that this is coming but will be thrilled, especially given the beautiful forecast (since I’ll be proposing outside on the mall).
Click on the link above to read the whole story!
You would think classical music is pretty static and you would not feel that much stuff going on, but actually because of the depth of 3-D, you really actually enhance the listening experience and connection to the music by having that shot in 3-D.
Um … we need 3-D for classical music? I don’t get it.
I read about it here.
I’ve been in a funk lately. It happens. I’m used to it at this point. Sometimes I opt to work myself out of it, but sometimes I opt instead to wallow for a while. If I’m feeling low, why not feel it deeply, eh? So when I read about the saddest music in the world I knew it was for me.
There are six works provided there. If number 6 doesn’t hit you in the gut — of course the knowing about the death of the singer adds to the pain — I can’t like you any more. Sorry.
