Friday, February 10th, 2006
Some friends of mine and I were talking about working up my favorite piece of chamber music, ever: Spinoff, by Charles Wuorinen.
This piece is a beast. Listen to this excerpt from Wuorinen's site to get a flavor of what we're dealing with here. It's head-banging rock and roll for classical ...
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
I found the iTunes Signature Maker at the blog of Ryan Shaw this evening. Extremely cool little idea to take your iTunes playlist and make a short little audio avitar of your musical tastes. Here is mine.
The creation of the file requires you to trust a Java applet to scan ...
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
I found this today in my Technorati subscription: Zeke's Gallery: More from the archives - The Double Bass Quartet
Check out the recording. The opening piece is pretty cool sounding. Nice to hear a double bass quartet doing a regular appearance somewhere!
My favorite is of course Gunther Schuller's work "Quartet for ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2005
Here's an interesting set of blog posts from hella frisch, blogic, and AC/DC, all on their recent performance of the Hummel Quintet for violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano.
Blogic notes that Johann Hummel's middle name was "Nepomuk", and his post is even titled "Nepo-who?!?" There are actually two Nepomuks ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Back to work after almost two weeks of being on vacation ��� moving and a short trip up to the Redwoods for some performances.
The new house is the best part. We finally got DSL up and running today. Actually, Yingwen got the tech support call saying that it was ...
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