Here’s a fairly common thing that happens when one does a gig where parts are produced under a tight deadline: misprints, wrong clefs, mis-transpositions, etc. Here’s a chart with the before on the left, the after on the right – looks a little different, right? Glad I wrote a lot of theory/orchestration exercises in undergrad – came in handy to be able to pound out the manuscript for this one:
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Stewie “plays” the french horn.
Stewie plays the banjo.
Lois and Brian keep the rhythm – funny if you’ve ever taught a music lesson.
Present:
Parallaxis: Music and Moving Pictures: A live concert of 20th/21st-century classical music performed with original video/film
by contemporary artists — silent-movie style.
Friday, April 17
8 PM
Colonial Heights Presbyterian Church
2828 SE Stephens St
Portland OR 97214
(between Hawthorne & Division)
Tickets:
Online at www.artixpdx.pdx or at the door:
• $20 general admission
• $15 seniors
• $5 students
• Children under 13 free.
A friend sent this along to me last night as I was finishing up a previous blog posting, and I took the time to read it instead of just passing it over with good intentions. I’m so glad I did. There is so much in the business of producing music that is stressful, disheartening, political, petty, venial, difficult, and non-musical. It sometimes makes it hard to see why one is doing the act of making music in the first place. Documents such as this one remind one why music is so important to both create and listen to.
The following is a welcoming address given to incoming freshmen at the Boston Conservatory of Music by Karl Paulnack, who is a pianist and director of the Conservatory’s music division. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did. Continue reading