From the monthly archives:
We finished our auditions for HOMER IN CYBERSPACE last night and now there are actual people attached to all of the music I’ve been writing for the past nine months. We will try to have an informal reading of the all the music I have done to date in early March so the cast and [...]
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An uplifting video for chiidren of all kinds about having two fathers. [Thanks to Richard Snyder for finding this.]
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Mel, Jeremy, Chris, Dan, Dan and I heard auditions for HOMER IN CYBERSPACE yesterday from 10 to 4. Talented UCLA students from the Theater, and Music Theater programs delivered a monologue and sang one song — either a “long lined song” or a patter song “showing off your articulation.”
Mel sits through auditions all the time. [...]
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I’ve been home with the flu for three days. Trying to stay in bed and make it go away. I watched lots of movies, an activity that keeps me still and in bed. Blogging and other sitting at the computer activities doesn’t help you get better I have found, so I’ve not posted too much [...]
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Here are three different performances of one of Norah’s great songs, “Don’t Know Why.”
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“Don’t Know Why” performed by Norah Jones (original video)
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“Don’t Know Why” performed by Pat Metheny
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“Don’t Know ‘Y’” performed by Norah Jones and Elmo
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I don’t think composers can really write constantly without taking breaks. To a person on the outside, these breaks might look like “goofing off” but we composers know that you have to recharge your batteries.
Swallow.
Take big breaths.
Stretch.
Take a nap.
Have a meal or a snack.
Take a walk.
Run an errand.
Surf the web.
Putter in the garden.
Make a [...]
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This “amateur” video drives me mildly crazy but it’s a unique entertainment and the process draws you in. This chap plays neither the piano nor drums. Does that mean that he is not musical? Heavens no. Computers now make making music quite simple for the so-called “non-musician.” Given the desire, most people should be able [...]
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Composer (and my teacher at New England Conservatory), Malcolm Peyton told us several times that a composer’s metabolism is reflected in his/her music. A brilliant observation — although I remember one classmate at NEC who loved to play late Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel, but when it came to writing his own music, it was like [...]
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Dear Tim
I love watching you on Project Runway. People tell me that we look alike, but you have MUCH better clothes. You have inspired one of our administrators here in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music who now quotes you regularly and isn’t even gay. His favorite motto now is “rally!”
My note to you [...]
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Twice today I heard a friend dismiss someone because of something they said when they first met. In the first case it was an obnoxious bordering on hostile comment, and in the second case it was something someone said in their interview. And in both cases, they never updated their opinions of the person, and [...]
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