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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is genius...I would totally go see this. Why is it that the one scene where Khan puts the slug things in their ears made the biggest impact on everyone who saw it?
I just did an interview in Second Live, on the Music Academy OnLive show. You can download it as a podcast on iTunes - just search for "SLCN.TV - Music Academy", or see it at [...]
Here's an interesting commentary on the state of classical music today. It's a video of an experiment by one of the most famous classical violinists in the world, Joshua Bell, where he plays the Bach [...]
A while ago, a friend of mine, conductor Kelly Corcoran, posted a blog on her feelings on the orchestra in the 21st century, and I posted a response to that blog. I just re-read it, [...]
I was thinking the other day – why do we write music? Is it to impress a small group of people with our compositional skill – or is it to move people on an emotional [...]