There’s something about that last practice recording of JJ 1 that I’m embarrassed to admit. It certainly would alter and perhaps interfere with the performance. Anyone care to guess? It’s something you would know if you saw me playing. (and…
Tonight’s practice, in it’s naked rawness. Very live, as in, not edited at all, kind of like singing in the shower. I stopped about 1/3 way in for about 15 seconds because I thought someone knocked. Also, near the end…
Excerpt from Jeanjean 3rd ètude. [audio:https://blog.davidhthomas.net/wp-content/uploads/Jeanjean-3-beginning.mp3] Want to hear more?
Eric Booth, a leading trainer of teaching artists, writes in this month’s Symphony magazine: A job satisfaction survey done a few year ago listed several hundred jobs in America and rated them according to haw satisfied their practitioners were with…
Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie [audio:https://blog.davidhthomas.net/wp-content/uploads/Debussy-Premiere-Rhapsodie.mp3] David Thomas, clarinet Columbus Symphony Orchestra Alessandro Siciliani, conducting
I got the following email from a reader, who is a classmate of mine from Peabody days though I haven’t been in touch with him since then. He’s now “Adjunct Faculty; Private Teacher-Musicologist-Critic at Averett University” from his LinkedIn profile.…