One half of the pleasure of doing research at a more general level (e.g. “Solo Cello Music Repertoire” rather than “Cello Repertoire by Popper”) is finding gems you’d never think to come across. Earlier I found a full CD recording of 20th Century Bulgarian Music for Cello Solo. I’ve never heard of any of the [...]
Also tagged Anatoli Krastev, Bibliography, Bulgarian music, recording, solo cello worksAfter writing my previous post I remembered one of my pet projects from my undergrad years. I believe it was my senior year as a cello performance major that I was going to compile a bibliography of works for unaccompanied cello. What that meant, back then, was that I was going to make a list [...]
Also tagged Bibliography, solo cello worksIt’s been years since I’ve done a recital proper. I’d been toying with the idea for some time now–the past couple of years to be exact. What is sad is that I haven’t really had the time (still don’t) to prepare for one. I’ve come to realize that there’s just no way that I will [...]
Also tagged Music, pedagogy, recital, World Musichere’s part 2 (continued from part one here: http://people.tribe.net/il-troubadore/blog/dd4e9ada-3ae8-4598-8399-0f9d45be6b03 ) photo above: il Troubadore with the Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre ( http://www.gregoryhancockdancetheatre.org ) by Loudermilk Studios (August 4, 2006) inside Precious Mettles ( http://www.preciousmettlesart.com/ ) after an impromptu street performance. So my personal interest in working with belly dancers, as I said in the previous [...]
Also tagged Bellydance, il Troubadore, World MusicThis is a question we get asked on occasion–and it seems to have popped up more recently than it had before. Rather than give the same “origin” story of how we hooked up with Zweena bint Asya and Troupe Taleeba ( http://taleeba.tribe.net/ ) back in December of 2004, I’ll give y’all some of my background, [...]
Also tagged Bellydance, il Troubadore, World Music