Category: Music
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NBA Playoffs and Trumpet
Once again, I find myself multitasking during the NBA playoffs and somehow settle on a practice routine while watching games. This year it’s been four books, the Max Schlossberg Daily Drills and Clarke Technical Studies, Charles Colin Advanced Lip Flexibilities and finally any variation of flow studies. The first quarter involves mouthpiece buzzing of Schlossberg…
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Blackbird Variations
Blackbird Variations Blackbird Variations — Read on mosaicbrass.com/2019/03/10/blackbird-variations/
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Music and Words
Last month my school had an assembly celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Every year I think about how my school celebrates MLK. In years past, when I taught at a small independent elementary and middle school, we kept it to many of his highlights and events. Students learned about nonviolent protest,…
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Amplifying Diversity: Small Presses — The Best of It
Originally posted on educating alice: The ongoing and hugely important conversation featuring #ownvoices, diversity, and equity was most recently centered around an unfortunate WSJ journal article which Allie Bruce unpacks in her RWW post, “Why ‘Rock Star Librarian’ is an Oxymoron.” I highly recommend reading the original article (tricky as it is behind a paywall…
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More From Composition Game – Glass’ish
In August I posted a short composition I put together as part of a pilot program connecting me with an artist mentor. Somehow between then and now I didn’t get around to posting some of the other sketches. I mean to remedy that with this post. A friend thought the minimalist gestures sounded a little like Philip Glass.…
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Math and Music Conversations
Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting down with another teacher to talk about a seminar she is teaching about the intersection between Math and Music. We talked about music theory and how she sees patterns both in music and math. I found myself listening and becoming more inspired to explore Pythagorean ideas surrounding tuning…
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Remembering a brass quintet recording – Drei Stücke
I was going through some files recently and came across an old program for a concert I played with a brass quintet. There were two big pieces on the program and both were pieces were obscure to me. The one I ended up looking for online was a piece by Stefan Hakenberg named Drei Stücke.…
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Nasa postpones ‘mission to the Sun’
Nasa postpones ‘mission to the Sun’ https://snapzuscience.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/nasa-postpones-mission-to-the-sun/ — Read on snapzuscience.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/nasa-postpones-mission-to-the-sun/ Can’t believe we can do something like this. Touching the sun! Crazy and awesome.
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The Composition Game
I was recently asked to participate in a pilot program connecting me with an artist of the same discipline to work with me and coach me achieve an important next step in my career. My peer mentor and I talked about using music composition as a way of stretching out to meet some artistic goals.…
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Blogger’s Block? Here’s How to Beat it
Blogger’s Block? Here’s How to Beat it http://cristianmihai.net/2018/07/15/bloggers-block-heres-how-to-beat-it/ — Read on cristianmihai.net/2018/07/15/bloggers-block-heres-how-to-beat-it/ This was a good read and a reminder to keep working.
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