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 MusicHaving 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 [...]
So 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 OrchestraA Bach (probably the 1st) Suite Harrington’s “Empty Fist” Cassadó Suite –break– Hindemith Sonata Kodály Sonata
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 [...]
In tarab music, the ability to play or sing in correct pitch is another requisite for creating ecstatically effective performances. Essentially, few theoretical works describe the ecstatic role of intonation, despite the abundance of treatises and text-books that deal with tuning and modal scales. Furthermore, in such sources melodic intervals are most often presented in [...]
Tagged Arabic Music, Microtonal Music, Microtones, scales