You must check out this commercial for the new Honda Civic done by Honda UK (again, the Brits show their appreciation of the arts in innovative new ways) – it’s unbelievable, and there’s a ‘making of’ documentary on the site as well. Thanks for Alex for pointing this one out…
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If you are within a two hour drive of Portland, Oregon – I strongly urge you to come to either our Front Row Center concert Friday, January 20th at 7:30 p.m. or to our Classical series January 22-23 in Portland and Jan. 24 in Salem, Oregon. She will be singing music from Saint-Säens (“Ah! mon
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I would highly recommend the documentary film that is currently touring around select cities in the US right now. It’s entitled Music from the Inside Out, and it features the musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Hardly any other orchestra in the U.S. has such a storied and illustrious history, and the musicians are some of
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In his brilliant, informative, and almost always entertaining blog, the pianist Jeremy Denk talks about the mundane details of practicing, and what we musicians do to either make ourselves do it or do when we just don’t feel like it. Here are three seminal paragraphs: I played them several times; wrote in fingerings (soon to
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I was looking at the Oregon Symphony’s Web site the other day, and noticed a section which allowed patrons to post reviews of concerts (presumably those reviews which are published are only the positive ones). Here is part of a letter which caught my eye: ‘One thing I enjoyed also was the lack of modernistic
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UPDATE 2: I’ve decided, after some thought on the matter, to disable commenting for this post. Everyone’s said their piece (and then some) and this is not a blog about an ugly business dispute.
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A good article on acoustics for the audience, and how, even in a great hall, where you sit can make a huge difference in what you hear. For example – in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall here in Portland, you spend the most money for the Dress Circle seats, which are in the formost portion
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Here is the new address of the feedburner feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/nobleviola/dailyobs
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(Photo by Viv) For most musicians, the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is pretty uneventful. For me, however, it was quite a bit busier than usual the last couple years. Last year I went down to Los Angeles to play as a member of the Harvy Rosencrantz Orchestra, the string band that accompanies
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The links to music-related blogs that I frequent are now up – enjoy! Oh – and have a Happy New Year!!
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