As some of you might have noticed, I’ve moved my blog to my wordpress site for now (url: http://silpayamanant.wordpress.com/ ). I need to seriously redo my whole website and until I decide how I’m going to integrate all my various blogs I’ll just use the site above for my musical postings. So update those bookmarks [...]
“It is easy to lie with statistics, but it’s a lot easier to lie without them.” – Richard J. Herrnstein After tearing apart my home office and doig some re-organization I finally came across my copy of Charles Murray’s “Human Accomplishment” which was the main reason I decided to clean-up the office in the first [...]
Tagged Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment, music excellence, Western Classical MusicYesterday, I posted a bit about playing for underserved audiences, or rather, my desire to play for them. As the response to an email I quoted it’s an issue of bringing a certain type of live entertainment to groups that might not otherwise have an opportunity (or that have fewer opportunities) to ever experience an [...]
Tagged economics, ethnic minorities, health and nutrition, mission statement, underserved audiencesHaving taken my mother on our monthly foray to an Asian food mart in Louisville, I actually took to the time to inspect one of the fliers that litter all the Vietnamese food stores on third street: What I hadn’t paid attention to in the past is that these fliers were (I’m assuming) for events [...]
Tagged mission statement, underserved audiencesNo, not this blog. The “this” I’m referring to is the general direction my musical activities have taken over the years. How I’ve managed to maintain the active performing and teaching schedule I have despite life’s occasionally getting in the way (mom’s leukemia ’08-’09; brother’s death last year) without “streamlining” is beyond me. I’m sure [...]