Dem Convention Music, Day 2: Tuesday Night Grab-Bag

The music for Tuesday night was kind of a grab-bag — a bit of a let down from Monday night’s funk-fest, if you ask me. There were many fills that I didn’t recognize, and most of the ones I did know didn’t really seem thematically related to the speaker they introduced (or to the one [...]

The Denver School of Funk!

You never know when an opportunity for music education will present itself. This is both delightful and vexing to yours truly, because it means that 1) there’s never a shortage of grist for the music-nerdy mill, but 2) there’s so much to know, I’m afraid that any day now, the hard drive in my brain [...]

A Lucky Day for Detroit!

Cross-posted at the Detroit Symphony Blog, because I am so famous and in demand!
If you’re superstitious, you probably already have your lucky rabbit’s foot or some such charm or talisman at the ready, tomorrow being Friday the 13th and all. I would say that tomorrow is a very lucky day for Detroit, though. [...]

Two LoveNerds Celebrate One Year!

I’m back after a few days off from blogging! I needed a little breather after completing the NaBloPoMohttp://missmusicnerd.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=292&message=1&_wp_original_http_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fmissmusicnerd.wordpress.com%2F challenge, and of course McDoc and I had our 1st wedding anniversary to celebrate!!!
We had a lovely, if too brief, getaway in Windsor — where, by the way, everyone else was visiting to watch the Red Bull [...]

A Little Housekeeping

NaBloPoMo Day 27!
I found out recently that the audio hosting site I had been using isn’t working anymore. It might come back at some point, but for the moment there are licensing issues to deal with. It’s too bad, because I was hosting my own music with them, so licensing really wasn’t an issue for [...]

Underground Music — Literally!

NaBloPoMo Day 17!
I lived in New York City for four years, back in the ’90s (that’s in the last century! ). I did a number of things there — worked as 1) a church organist, 2) a research assistant for a music consulting firm, 3) an administrative assistant for a small investment bank (I [...]

Coming Attractions

NaBloPoMo Day 11!
Another quick post, while the follow-up to yesterday percolates…
It’s hard to believe it, but it’s been nearly a year since McDoc and I arrived in Detroit. One of the first things we discovered after arriving here was a music festival put on by the Detroit Symphony called 8 Days in June. It was [...]

Keyboards of the World! Vol. 2

Time to post the latest keyboard pics from my recent travels!
It has taken much longer than usual to get these from meatspace to cyberspace, due to the untimely demise of my trusty digital camera. I bought it in 2003, so I suppose I shouldn’t be too sad; it had a good, long life, as electronic [...]

Et tu, CBC?

One of the nice things about living in Detroit (yes, there are some!) is that we’re close enough to Canada to pick up the CBC radio stations. I cannot stand commercial radio — the ads are so obnoxious, I can rarely wait to see if there’ll even be any music scattered among them, let alone [...]

When Can We Write the Requiem for This War?

Miss Music Nerd is not an overtly political blog, and it is, for the most part, a lighthearted affair.
But there are times when I am moved to take a stand.

This video is from a performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. In the piece, Britten intersperses the Latin text of the traditional Requiem Mass with poems [...]