Composers: Kevin Puts
This is the second of my new series of blogs about composers that I respect, and who’s music I think is shaping the classical music of the 21st century. I’ll be doing this [...]
March 2009
Oh. My. GOD.
I just stumbled across something so amazing, so surprising - I am totally and completely blown away by this. Essentially, this guy scoured You Tube for videos of musicians and singers playing/singing solo. He then [...]
Remembering Mandy on March 5th
Today is the 7th anniversary of my friend Mandy Morris' death. In rememberance, I thought I would post the audio to my piece that I wrote to honor her memory, the Hommage a Mandy Morris, [...]
15 albums that changed your life (11-15)
11) DE STAAT – LOUIS ANDRIESSEN I was first introduced to De Staat in the Spring of 2000, during my last semester at the University of Texas. My friend and fellow composer Rafael Hernandez and [...]
15 albums that changed your life (6-10)
6) BELA BARTOK – MUSIC FOR STRINGS, PERCUSSION AND CELESTA After I graduated high school in 1991, I entered the University of Houston studying Communications, with a secret desire to study music. My first semester, [...]
15 albums that changed your life (1-5)
There’s been a “note” going around Facebook for a few months now that contains the following tag line: “Think of 15 albums, CDs, LPs that had such a profound effect on you they changed your [...]
February 2009
Duo 46 concert online
I just found a concert of the guitar/violin duo Duo 46 online. It's a concert they played in Calgary at St. Stephen's Anglican Church on April 5th, 2008, and is presented on the Canadian Broadcasting [...]
Composers: Carlos Rafael Rivera
I thought I would start a new series of blogs about composers that I respect, and whos music I think is shaping the classical music of the 21st century. I’ll be doing this [...]
Sur Incises
I came across this You Tube video of Pierre Boulez doing a kind of presentation of parts of his piece Sur Incises. It reminded me how much I love this piece. The audio quality of [...]
Surfin with the Plagiarist
I just heard today about the controversy surrounding the band Coldplay and the guitarist Joe Satriani. A friend of mine posted a status update on Facebook congratulating Satriani on winning the Grammy for Song of [...]