I’ve been playing music from the Middle East for some years now. I’ve picked up skill with various Middle Eastern percussion; I play and actively perform what amounts to hours worth of music from the region; I even sing in Turkish, Arabic, some Armenian. But right now I feel like I don’t know the first [...]
Tagged Arabic Music, Turkish musicI had wanted to talk about this topic for some time now as I realize my ability (and willingness) to sing while playing the cello puts me in the minority of instrumentalists of many if not most genres–and especially with the minority of instrumentalists who play bowed stringed instruments. Singing isn’t the issue here, we’ve [...]
Tagged Cello, SingingI just found this Imeem site with streams of Silapee Tramote playing saw duang (Thai: ซอด้วง) solos: http://www.imeem.com/rayasuree/playlist/0hyHaPjI/thai-classical-music-saw-duang-solo-music-playlist/ For those of you interested, the Thai saw duang is closely related to the chinese erhu. More info about the insrument with some other short audio clips may be found here: http://www.culture.go.th/research/musical/html/en_musical_central.php?musical=sawduang I also maintain a MySpace [...]
Tagged Erhu, Saw Duang, Silapee Tramote, Thai Music, ซอด้วงSo I’ve taken a bit of an unintentional break from blogging. I’m trying to post at least once a day for my own benefit (I’d like to get used to writing again–more as a way to develop how I organize thoughts on the page than for anything else). But back to the Solo cello recital [...]
Tagged Blogging, Cello, solo cello worksSo I’m slowly migrating posts from various blogs I’ve had over the years to this one. Well, ok–I will be slowly migrating posts from various blogs I’ve had (and technically still have) over the years to this one. As I skim through these posts I’m reminded by some of my past artistic and musical activities. [...]
Tagged Alison Knowles, Amira Mor, Bellydance, Erik Friedlander, Fluxus, Performance Art, Roberto Sifuentes, TopazI believe it was Gunther Schuller that said something to the effect of “play exactly what I had written and nothing else” (if I am completely making this up, PLEASE let me know). But basically I agree to a large extent with what Schuller was saying with respects to the role of a performer. This [...]
Tagged Ethnocentrism and the very Idea of Literary Theory, Fitzenhagen, Gunther Schuller, Harold In Italy, Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music, Paganini, Patrick Hogan, Performance Practice, Tchaikovsky, Turkish music, Yayli TamburA few weeks ago I finally had the opportunity to watch Greg Cahill’s docufilm about Cambodian vocalist, Ros Sereysothea, The Golden Voice. I was only mildly disappointed. Not for the quality of the film–it is beautifully done–but because there wasn’t enough focus on, well, the music (probably also the biggest issue I had with Olivier [...]
Tagged Cambodian music, Chinese music, Chinese Opera, Cinema, Derek Bailey, Documentary, Dress Rehearsal: The Brave Hurr's Ta'Zieh, Édith Piaf, Film, French music, Greg Cahill, Kunju, La Vie en Rose, Nasser Taghvai, Olivier Dahan, Persian music, Persian Opera, Ros Sereysothea, Siân Busby, The Golden Voice, The Peony PavilionThis is a prewritten post as I will be performing with with Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys at the “A Tribute to Don Helms” show to benefit the Don Helms Memorial Fund. The show will be at the Texas Troubadour Theatre and will also feature Bobby Bare and other guest performers. If any readers [...]
Tagged A Tribute to Don Helms, Cherokee Cowboys, Country-Western music, Don Helms, Drifting Cowboys, Nashville, Ray Price, Steel GuitarThis is a prewritten post as I will be performing at the Grand Ole Opry with Ray Price and the Cherokee Cowboys. If any readers are so inclined then please come to the show for live old school Country-Western music as only multi-Grammy Award winner and Country Hall of Fame inductee, Ray Price, can present. [...]
This is a prewritten post as I will be performing at the Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co. with il Troubadore. If any readers are so inclined then please come to the show for live world music as only il Troubadore can present. Show info follows: il Troubadore at Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co. 100 Northwestern [...]
Tagged Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co., il Troubadore, West Lafayette, World Music