Category: Music
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Give these two a listen…
Toward the end of the school year, a few of us were sharing cool music and videos of performances we thought were really cool. Even after the end of the school year, I find myself looking up these videos and listening to some of these performances. Here are two that stood out and are still…
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Rabbit Hole and then Jennifer Hudson…
Sometimes I start listening to music and looking up different videos, just to see if I find something new and interesting. This time I landed on Jennifer Hudson. I must have listened to this about five or six times. Her inflections and phrasing are simple and beautiful. The kind of music making that makes me…
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Things Students Say and Drizzical
After watching my colleague work herself silly conducting, planning and teaching the all-school musical, I came to a stark realization. The end of the school year can make us feel crazy like everything is closing up on all of us, students, teachers, and administrators. I’ve been especially loopy lately and so have my advisory students.…
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Interesting Week of Thoughts
When I share something that is linked somehow to popular culture, it’s often because “I am late to the party”, but still want to participate. In this case I may still be late to this party, however, I can’t shake how I felt after watching Black Panther. My insights won’t offer anything new to the…
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Just a thought
via Greed is based on the narrow view that others shouldn’t have what you have, but you should have what they have. — Sig Nordal, Jr.
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Saw this and had to share it
Originally posted on irevuo: Remember that time Damien Hirst put a dead shark in a tank and called it “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”? Well…that’s what art critics said…anyone could have done it… Yet no one until Hirst did it, right? Nowadays it’s all about innovation, at all costs.… via…
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Finals week approching
DCI finals are approaching and I am catching up with videos on Youtube and Facebook. Of course, this starts me down the rabbit hole of reminiscing. I start to think about all the years of drum and bugle corps I marched. In 1990 I started marching in a drum and bugle corps in the Bronx.…
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Stirring Season Finale from Seattle Pro Musica
http://memeteria.com/2017/05/20/stirring-season-finale-from-seattle-pro-musica/
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Trumpet and Basketball
Sometimes multitasking can go to far. For me lately, my practice habits have been lead by the NBA playoffs. I settle in to watch a game but feeling guilty about not practicing my trumpet. So I decided to create a practice routine around the game. I tend to think of this kind of practice as maintenance. More…
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The Westerlies Tiny Desk Concert
I love having time to just listen to something new to me. I also love checking out familiar groups with new projects. One of the groups I like to follow is The Westerlies. I came across their NPR Tiny Desk Concerts performance from 2016. And I loved it! It’s a refreshing and inventive program, with…
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