From the monthly archives:
Over the past five years I have had an annual photo shoot with my dear friend and trainer Teresina. Here are two (of the 500) from our most recent photo shoot. Teresina is passionate about her stationary bicycle, so this is a sexy pose with her buddy, the bike. The second one shows her surrounded [...]
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Welcome to SoCal brother Blake!
Young cellist, Blake Oliver, has just moved to LA and has started a blog, called Shake It and Bake It!, chronicling his adventure. Here is Blake playing the David Popper, Etude No.4 for solo cello.
I recently graduated from Northwestern University, where I studied with Hans Jensen. Ja. Now I’m a [...]
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One of my favorite 20th century artists has been the virtuosa theremin player, Clara Rockmore. I first got to know her on an LP (now on CD) called “The Art of Clara Rockmore.” I always play her performance of the Rachmaninov “Vocalese” for my young electronic composers as an example of EXPRESSIVE electronic playing. Too [...]
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Alex Ross’s blog is worth $179,523.72.
How much is your blog worth?
Roger Bourland’s blog is worth $27,092.97.
How much is your blog worth?
I have no idea how Dane Carlson has come up with this information, but he has created a little program to determine how much blogs are worth.
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Some days it seems–no matter where I turn–I see pain. Not because I’m looking for it, but it seems to build up like a static charge that needs to be grounded, like a possession that needs to be exorcised.
Yesterday I seemed to see more of it than I have in quite a while. One [...]
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Cher Hector,
My true nature as a hermit coupled with Rufus Wainwright’s hectic touring schedule has led me to the conclusion that I am not the right teacher for him. i am happy to hear that your opium habit is now in the past and would like you to reconsider taking him back as you [...]
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“I’m Telling You Now” came out the same year HELP! did. Songs like this spelled the death of wholesome or naiive rock n roll. The psychedelic movement was about to happen. The Byrds had just released “Mr Tambourine Man” and things were starting to get very cool. The Beatles were about to go acoustic on [...]
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A common conversation I have with well meaning wait staff and bartenders is as follows:
Roger: “I’ll have a Tanqueray martini straight up with an olive.”
Waiter: “Ok, that’s a TanGERay martini straight up with an olive. No problem.”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been “corrected” about its pronunciation. I look at the bottle and [...]
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Oh dear. I’m sorry but I am obliged to share two version of Pete Seeger’s campfire classic “Where have all the flowers gone” sung in English AND in German by that great folk singer, Marlene Dietrich.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Sag Mir Wo Die Blumen Sind
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I stumbled across a treasure trove (or something like that) of a 2 CD collection of rejected and unused scores. I made tremendous efforts trying to find whether it was ever actually published or whether this was something privately created by a film fanatic who has an enormous collection of film music. I’ve been sitting [...]
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