From the monthly archives:
Today at Hugo’s I had a new waiter. I noticed he had a treble clef tattooed on the inside of his right forearm, and a bass clef on the inside of his left forearm. I couldn’t resist asking whether he was a pianist, so I did.
“No, I’m a keyboard-guitar-bass-drums player” he rattled off as though [...]
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This just in from washingtonpost.com. Professor Barbara Block at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station has been tracking migration patterns of various creatures over the Pacific Ocean. The image was seductive. There is so much information in it. I didn’t see the key to which colors are birds and which are whales and which are seals, but [...]
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Andrew Sisters sing “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
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I have incorporated teaching the music notation software, Sibelius, into my first year music theory class. I gave one two-hour lecture on the basics. I then had a two-hour workshop where different students came up and used the software in front of the others, copying an assigned passage while the others watched on the screen. [...]
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I just stumbled upon a man who loves to paint martini themed art, and it’s really quite wonderful. The one above is called “Martini Genie” and Mr Godard has these program notes about the artwork:
In this image our lucky olive has found the magic lantern. When the olive rubs the lantern, a gorgeous genie appears [...]
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When a doctoral candidate in composition is ready to begin his or her dissertation, their first meeting is a meeting where the candidate meets with the committee to defend their dissertation topic. It is here that the faculty advise: “be sure to read…” or “you’re biting off too much” or “your proposal seems rather modest [...]
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I’m almost finished with a new project that I can’t tell you about yet. But here’s a hint. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
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My brother suggested that as my blog turns one year old, that I consider changing the name. I think he said ROGER BOURLAND, so that it was clear who was behind it. I picked Red Black Window last year as a poetic image, and also the name of the middle movement of my THREE DARK [...]
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Yay! Statistics for classical blogging nerds like me. By referring to those constantly changing Technorati rankings, Scott Spiegelberg has ranked the top 51 classical music blogs on his [17th ranked] blog, Musical Perceptions. You’ll be interested to know that Red Black Window was ranked 19th, and Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise was on top [...]
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I stumbled upon a wonderful singer-songwriter/composer that I recommend you listen to: Andrew Bird. He has been steadily releasing albums since 1997. I say “stumbled” when in fact I was looking on iTunes for anything new by Rufus Wainwright and saw that “others who bought Rufus also bought Andrew Bird.” So I took a listen [...]
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