February 2011
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“The free music lessons are the gravitational force that brings parents and...”
– Each season I try to create at least one orchestra program that fosters connections across racial and cultural lines – here is one recent example. Scrollworks, a visionary music education project in Birmingham, Alabama, dedicates itself entirely to that effort. Learn more about Jeane Goforth and her...
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Citizen review
If you haven’t made it to a WCFSO performance this is the kind of thing you’ve been missing:
As an encore Chris [Thile, mandolinist] stepped to the front of the stage and played the Presto from the Gm solo violin sonata unamplified. It was as fast or faster as any version from a modern violinist and, despite the speed, very musical as well. More ovations and then Chris sang a slow...
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reklamesorous asked: why do you like aaron copland so much?
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“The Internet has become the dominant form of communication. Copyright law needs...”
– Edward W. Gao, founder of the indispensable International Music Score Library Project, tells it like it is in yesterday’s NY Times piece on copyright issues surrounding the IMSLP. I’m with Edward here – my work as a concert programmer and performing artist has been abetted in myriad ways...
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The Social Landscape →
‘A photographic study of the social world’ through ‘pictures of the spaces people use in their daily lives.’ That’s how founder and lead curator Michael Wriston describes The Social Landscape, Tumblr’s most compelling new photography site. If you’re interested in cities and their social dimensions this collection of contemporary urban photography is a...
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Ever wonder what fourth graders think of...
One elementary school teacher in Louisville who attends the LO MakingMUSIC program annually with her students asked this year’s class for their thoughts on the experience:
What surprised me
The way they started the orchestra
How big the bassoon was
That the bow is made of horse hair
How fast the musicians plucked the strings
That we got to sing along with the orchestra
How singing...
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“Content is no longer scarce, people. It is abundant. Google understands that....”
– Memo to orchestra people: When it comes to our shareable content – audio, video, photos, etc – we need to start understanding that too.
[via BuzzMachine, see also]
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WatchFor J Dilla [February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006]
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WatchThe opening of Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring, from Peter Glushanok’s 1958 film version for WQED Pittsburgh. Dancers are Martha Graham as The Bride, Stuart Hodes as The Husbandman, Bertram Ross
as The Revivalist, Matt Turney as
The Pioneer Woman and Yuriko, Helen McGehee, Ethel Winter and Miriam Cole as
The Revivalists’ Flock. The stage design is by Isamu Nogochi.
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