Characteristics of Classical Music: Defining a Paradigm – Classical Music UK. Excerpt from article below. Thoughts? Classical music has blurred the definition and boundaries a bit more recently (including pop instruments and rhythms), but I think it is just as…
Serkin Plays Brahms – InstantEncore, Columbus Symphony
Serkin Plays Brahms – InstantEncore. This program also includes Bartok Concerto for Orchestra and Mozart Marriage of Figaro Overture. Also see my post “Learning Bartok Concerto for Orchestra”.
Venezuela – El Sistema USA, Music Education
Venezuela – El Sistema USA. This sounds wonderful. I wonder if we’ll ever have this kind of high level, integrated system in the US. I like the psychological milieu described below, with elements such as “play”, “keeping their bodies active”,…
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s Musical Mission
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s Musical Mission – 60 Minutes – CBS News. Is it possible to re-fresh music education in the US? Check out El Sistema USA. Everything is going for him – critical international acclaim, recording contracts, and last fall,…
Poem: That Music Always Round Me
That Music Always Round Me by Walt Whitman That music always round me, unceasing, unbeginning, yet long untaught I did not hear, But now the chorus I hear and am elated, A tenor, strong, ascending with power and health, with…
Clarinetist Retirement Options? San Francisco
Retirement option? “There’s a clarinetist who is a permanent fixture at this spot, playing annoying screechy “music” that he segues into “Mary Had a Little Lamb” or “Popeye” whenever a kid approaches. Moms and their tots stop and dance while…