From the monthly archives:
You gotta be tough to put up with Groucho Marks’ introductions. Nurturing? Try skeptical. But mmm mmmm! Listen to Ms Bentley. I wanna learn to play this. Do you suppose there is a notation of it somewhere? I can just smell the cigar smoke and feel those hot studio lights.
Gladys Bentley on" You Bet Your [...]
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“Precious Memories” Wilburn Brothers, Del Reeves, Loretta Lynn & Harold Morrison (Late 1960’s)
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Jason Moskovitz sent this in. “I’m the “light-skinned” guy on the big drum.” [on the left] I’ve gotta admit that this is one of the coolest orchestrations I’ve heard/seen is quite some time. The quivery instrument is a bowed saw, the percussion ensemble are members of the Taiko group Jason belongs to. Very cool. It’s [...]
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Maybe I should go to Florida and drink lots of beer and scream and get filmed by MTV so all my students will know what a party animal I am. Or, I could go to Palm Springs. Hmmmm…
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I had the great fortune of two concerts this past weekend. On Saturday, Vox Femina/LA premiered my ALARCON MADRIGALS, BOOK 3 at the First United Methodist Church on Wilshire (LA). As I mentioned the other day, the concert was sold out. At the last minute, they opened up the good sized balcony in the back, [...]
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The Vox Femina premiere of my ALARCON MADRIGALS, BOOK 3 will happen tonight. I’m opening for Carl Orff’s CARMINA BURANA which will be performed by Vox, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Children’s Choir, and the USC Percussion Ensemble, and conducted by Iris Levine.
Funny thing is, IT’S SOLD OUT! I’m [...]
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As it is the end of the term, I have finals to correct, grades to calculate, a competition to adjudicate, a report about a new hire to make, and a document to create about what I think our new music school should be like, I have almost no time left to blog for a few [...]
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Here is a sweet clip from a family that lost their Italian Greyhound, Bitty, to bad dog food. Heartbreaking. We have 2 IGs, and Bitty looks a bit like our Cody. They are fragile dogs and have fragile digestive systems. If you have a dog, be sure you’re not feeding it tainted food.
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[Rufus, takes a break from composing his opera, and watching Fellini's SATYRICON the screen freezes on the face of the young, brown hair, big-eyed gay boy, whose face slowly grows and fills the entire 50 inch flat screen display. Rufus bolts, knowing this is not in the movie. "Hello?" The face on the screen slowly [...]
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Since we have started a tradition of having little concerts in our home for friends, it seemed appropriate that I give a concert as well. The only music I have ever performed publically has been my music and pop music. I don’t play Mozart or Beethoven or Haydn piano sonatas in public. There are plenty [...]
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