After working from 6 am to 11 pm I got HOMER IN CYBERSPACE copied, bound, finished, recorded, edited and ready to hand out to the cast and crew tonight. We will read through the whole thing from 7 to 11. What a thrill!
And I can’t tell you how good it feels to have it finished. […]
Here is the syllabus for a course in counterpoint at the undergraduate level that I will start on Monday. Students have studied modal and tonal counterpoint in their core music theory courses and is quickly reviewed here. We will explore the counterpoint of people speaking in a group, some percussion studies, and some modal explorations. […]
Surprise! Rain in LA. Sunny weather was scheduled but the pacific ocean changed its mind.
Today is the last day of getting everything ready for our first complete rehearsal tomorrow night of HOMER IN CYBERSPACE. I have to print out 35 copies of the music and have it put in 3-ring binders. Then I have to […]
I get too many emails.
I’m not talking about spam. I have a variety of filters that get most of the spam out. I’m talking about email from people I know from the various parts of my life: my family, close friends, friends, colleagues, students, former students, staff, and then all the email that comes at […]
Daniel and I have fabulous front row tickets to the Chamber Music series at Disney Hall. On Tuesday, Josie (his mother) and I went to a concert that featured our new conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. Like us, everyone was anxious to see him in action. But here he played second violin in the Mozart Clarinet Quintet […]
An excellent set of instructions for making a perfect dry martini, here, with a twist. The gin used here is Plymouth, an excellent affordable gin.
How To Make A Classic Gin Martini Cocktail
When a musician gets a new instrument they truly love, one that inspires him to WANT to play, it is very much like having a new lover — you just can’t get enough, so you keep playing. Such has been the case with my 1976 Feurich piano. It’s a 7′3″ grand piano made of [now […]
This was sent in by Brenda Lynn Baker (relation?). “Woman’s Prison” is from Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose album produced by Jack White (The White Stripes). I admit that for the first two minutes I kept wanting to hit the stop button, but I watched and listened to the whole thing. This is the story […]
This just in from Tiko: an amazing drum ensemble from Basel, Switzerland worth watching, you won’t need your second cup of coffee if you do. Terrific rhythmic ensemble and interactive musicianship at the highest level.
© Schweizer Fernsehen 2006. Link to drummerworld.com]
I was in the mood for a little Conlon Nancarrow and found this fun 30″ video called “Everytime i prepare myself a cup of tea with milk, i can’t help spilling it.”
An early Leonard Cohen song revisited in a live performance in San Sebastian in 1988. Cohen’s performance here hasn’t changed much from his original recording. A dark and galloping song. There is no dominant in the opening verse. His sexy flat-six chord has three notes of a French augmented-6th chord (F A B) with a […]
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