Today: SCU faculty recital at noon (no, I’m not playing, but I think I should go and hear my colleagues, don’t you?). Two symphony rehearsals. With a (yum!) nice (free!) dinner in between. We’ll begin the afternoon rehearsal with Beethoven 6th, move to Amram, and get to the Janacek in the evening. Lots of notes. [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Read! category.
Music In Venezuela
Just some snippets for you: “Music has not just opened doors for me professionally,” says Felix, “it has opened my mind to a whole world of possibilities.” Under programmes run by the Foundation for the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela (Fesnojiv), Venezuela’s pioneering music education network commonly known as “El Sistema”, [...]
Classical Music UnStuffed
The National Symphony Orchestra has turned to the iPod to make classical music less stuffy to people more likely to rock ‘n’ roll. … because anyone who is someone knows that an iPod is not stuffy and will unstuff anything that is stuffy. Whew! Who knew the answer would be so simple? RTWT
Silence Matters
Skillful composers have long used silence to build a sense of anticipation. Some of music’s finest moments are spent in transition – waiting, in essence, for the other shoe to drop. RTWT So not only is it important to rest my embouchure (Gee, I thought it was all about the oboist!), but the brain likes [...]
I Agree
Thanks to Twang Twang Twang (Helen Radice) I have now read this poem. Maybe you should too?
Liang Wang (Again)
You don’t have to be German to play Brahms. I was very hurt. People think that way? It never occurred to me. and later I am a Chinese guy when I look in the mirror, but I’m a world citizen of music. -Liang Wang, principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic RTWT So fun to [...]