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 [...]
I was tempted to call this the “Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major Project” but thought that might incline me to have an end point for the project. As it stands, what I’ve decided to do (since I’ve decided I should go ahead and do this performance of Mahler 1 with the IU Southeast [...]
Tagged Blumine, Gustav Mahler, Leider eines fahrenden Gesellen, Mahler Project, Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D Major, TitanSo tonight (rather, last night) I went to what might (or might not) be the last concert given by the Louisville Orchestra. I had been meaning to get to a concert for some time but having the concert schedule I’ve had just made it so difficult (one of “perks” of constantly performing). Needless to say, [...]
Tagged Classical Music, Louisville OrchestraSo it looks like I might be giving a Xenomusic workshop for kids at ConGlomeration in Louisville next April. “What is ‘Xenomusic’?” you might ask? Well, basically, it would be the music of Alien races. Sometimes referred to as “Exomusic” or more plainly “Alien music” or “Extra-Terrestrial music”–it’s all the same, really. Ultimately, the idea, [...]
I’ve set up a Klingon Music Project page for il Troubadore at the following url: http://www.troubadore.com/QoQ/ It’s in the beginning stages for now but I will flesh it out as we get new content.
Tagged Klingon, Klingon musicThis Friday and possibly Sunday I’ll be heading to Starbase Indy (the 15th Generation). Partly to network and schmooze, partly just to be a fanboy rather than a performer or vendor, but mostly so that I can give out free copies of il Troubadore‘s Klingon music demo, “thlingan QoQ” to whomever will take one. Cover [...]
Tagged Klingon, Klingon music, thlIngan QoQ