Take note: Music improves learning | ajc.com. An impassioned plea to stop cutting funding from school music programs, written by an eighth grader! Childhood, when minds are young, open and quick to absorb information, is the most vital time to…
Classical Music for Sleep
Classical Music for Sleep | Daily Break News. Anyone heard this stuff? Sounds spooky. Classical music with sleep propaganda subliminally embedded. “You simply listen to the soothing classical, music at bedtime and specific inaudible sound frequencies, embedded into the soundtrack,…
Tchaikovsky’s “Pathetique”
Tchaikovsky’s “Pathetique” – InstantEncore. The program includes Beethoven Leonora #2, which is very different from #3 and is also more difficult to perform accurately. The trumpet call is completely different. Whole passages are developed in an entirely different way from…
Poem: To Play Pianissimo
Since I just played Tchaikovsky 6th symphony with the Columbus Symphony last week, I thought I’d post a poem about pianissimo playing. Actually the Tchaikovsky markings for the famous dolce solos in the first movement have several indications for pppp…
Europe’s Cloud of Ash Casts Pall Over World of Music
Europe’s Cloud of Ash Casts Pall Over World of Music – NYTimes.com. Interesting how the travel disruptions caused Iceland’s volcano have highlighted the now universal practice of importing musicians internationally. By default, local has come to be considered below standard.…
Musical Interpretation II: Moving from Human Juke-Box Machine to Doing a Dan Dare
Musical Interpretation II: Moving from Human Juke-Box Machine to Doing a Dan Dare « Marion Harrington’s Clarinet World. My friend Marion Harrington has published the second in a series of articles on the colossal subject of interpretation on her blog.…