Green Shoots!
Mud Season!
Miss Music Nerd surged past 1000 hits this week! And that’s after less than a month! (I imported some older posts from my other blog, Our Detroit Odyssey, but I started this blog on Dec. 2nd.)
Here’s some music to celebrate, from the 30 Days Project — something that has a good beat, that you can [...]
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Sigh… Procrastination is so inspiring sometimes…
I was sitting at the piano last night, feeling bored and uninspired, looking for a way to do anything but what I was supposed to be doing. I started noodling around and came up with something that said “holidays” to me. It reminded me of when McDoc and I were [...]
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We’ve received some lovely ornaments as gifts this year, and some of them are music-themed, which prompted me to take inventory of our musical decorations.
The Tree at McVirgo Manor
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Students who are new to music appreciation have a number of vocabulary challenges to deal with. Music terminology, like language in general, has developed over hundreds of years with input from vast numbers of temperamental artsy types speaking several different languages. Terms have been created ad hoc, and often remain in use for the sake [...]
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WARNING: Tricks are for kids, but these videos are for grown-ups who aren’t easily offended. If you don’t like to work blue, you might want to hold out for my next, clean post!
File this under Things I Wish I’d Thought of First… composer Igor Keller has spun Bill O’Reilly’s infamous Falafel Phone Call [...]
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Last night, McDoc asked me for examples of music that make reference to snow — a very timely topic for two Californians experiencing their first Michigan winter!
The first thing I thought of was “The Snow is Dancing,” (audio sample) from The Children’s Corner, a suite of piano pieces by Claude Debussy. There’s also “Des Pas [...]
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In the previous post, I wrote about the passing of my first composition professor Andrew Imbrie on December 5th. It turns out two other important figures in classical music died on that same day: American musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock and German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
I want to talk a little bit about Stockhausen, because he [...]
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I’m terribly sad to report that I just found out about the passing of my first composition professor, Andrew Imbrie. I studied with him as an undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley, and he was the subject of my master’s thesis at New York University.
Professor Imbrie was a sort of musical father figure to me. He could [...]
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McDoc and I recently installed a couple CD towers in our living room… it was way past time to get the CD’s out of the cardboard boxes! (VirgoDad was kind enough to anchor them to the wall for us while visiting from California!)
We decided to put all our CD’s together — formerly McDoc’s and formerly [...]
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