I’ve had lots of interesting musical experiences over the years and I guess that hasn’t changed recently. I was musing about the interesting weekend I had and thought that it had taken the cake. As I posted as a facebook status, “What a weekend–saw/heard two things I never thought I’d see: Jewish Cowboy musician and [...]
I’ll be moving this blog to another url soon. I’ve decided that I’m just much more comfortable using Movable Type blogging software and I just don’t have the time to learn a new blog script. The biggest issue is that over the years (well over a decade actually) I’ve been sometimes a very active blogger [...]
While reading some research about rhythm cognition I came across a link to a chapter (“How Music Organizes Time”) of Robert Garfias’ book. This is quote is pretty self-explanatory! In teaching us to see more accurately in order to draw realistically, Betty Edwards in her book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, advises [...]
A Bach (probably the 1st) Suite Harrington’s “Empty Fist” Cassadó Suite –break– Hindemith Sonata Kodály Sonata
Oliver Leaman, in his book “Islamic Aesthetics”, describes the role of the audience of musical performances (in the context of a discussion of audience response to the great Egyptian vocalist Umm Khulthum) under a section titled “The role of the audience in music” (Leaman 2004, 107): To a degree the audience reacts as it has [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post it looks like I might be drumming for a local Flamenco group. Yesterday I was asked to drum for a Balkan group based in Bloomington, Indiana (home to the world reknown Jacobs School of Music). For most of the past year I’ve taken over most of the drumming [...]
Program for the IUS Orchestra concert. Doing this mostly for fun, and since Phil Thomas asked me so nicely. Sunday, November 21 ‘ 3:00 p.m. IU Southeast Orchestra with guest artist JESSICA LITWINIEC DORMAN, piano PHIL THOMAS, conductor ROSSINI: Overture to La Gazza Ladra BARBER: Commando March BARBER: Adagio for Strings PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. [...]
So il Troubadore played another show minus two band members. We were asked to play a set of Italian music for the World on the Square in Corydon, Indiana. This was a treat as it’s been a couple of years since the Festa Italiana in Louisville folded and we hadn’t had a regular spot to [...]
I was reminded of a quote I’ve often posted in various online forum debates about originality in music. Here’s the blurb from an old issue of the Theatre Symposium journal–the special issue titled “Crosscurrents in Drama: East and West” (Volume 6, 1998). It’s from “Part II: The Symposium, A Panel Discussion on Crosscurrents in the [...]
This section of Racy’s “Making Music in the Arab World” could be just as applicable to the non-Arab musician. In the chapter titled simply, Music, he begins the section titled “The art of accompanying” with When called for, musical accompaniment plays a crucial role in the evocative process. Basically, an accompanying performer must be musically [...]
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