Yesterday, 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 audiencesI 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, TitanI 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 [...]
Greg Sandow has recently posted a blurb from Ramon Ricker’s blog post, Changing US Demographics and Classical Music. This is very much an issue and theme I’ve been exploring a bit here. I especially enjoyed Janis’ comments to Greg’s post. I’ve had at least one response at Greg’s site get eaten, so i thought I’d [...]
Tagged Cultural Diversity, Cultural Imperialism Hypothesis, Demographics, World MusicThis is a project I’d been thinking about for some months now but just haven’t had the time to get around to for various reasons. With the recent publication of Eric Siblin’s The Cello Suites as well as the general lacunae in conservatory Music History education regarding the music in portions of Europe during the [...]
A fantastic piece by Gary Melvin with lots of spot on tips/advice that would go just as well for the frontman/soloist as not. This should be every working musician’s guidebook! A Guide to Being a Successful Sideman by Gary Melvin
So 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 is it so strange that I get a kick out of practicing/playing Popper Etudes? I feel even more strongly that these little gems should be performed publicly more often. A number of them are great little show pieces–and let’s be frank, pieces like “Dance of the Elves” or “Spinning Song” are nothing more than [...]
Tagged Cello, David Popper, EtudesSo after finding another one of my composer friends, Steve Layton, on facebook (this site has got to be one of the best networking tools I’ve come across) he directed me to the new netnewmusic ning website. I put out a call for solo cello repertoire there and have gotten quite a number of responses [...]
Tagged Bibliography, Cello, NetNewMusic, solo cello works