Quite a lot of minimalism this past week at the Aaron Copland School of Music… I participated in performing Steve Reich’s “In C” in the atrium along with 15 other musicians… cool recording of an “In C” performing… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjR4QYsa9nE then Innovox performed minimal works of Philip Glass… And QC composers… A memorable piece was that […]
Month: April 2013
Varieties of Disturbance
I’ve been suffering from writer’s block, banal of an excuse as that is. With my final workshop submission due next Tuesday, this first year of the MFA program is already winding to a close. But I’ve been biting my proverbial nails trying to get this piece ready. Last Sunday, I steeled myself to remain indoors […]
The Soda Ban
Recipe of the Week: Juice! I broke my soda ban today. On December 31st, I promised myself that for an entire year, I would not touch a drop of soda. For almost five months, I kept that promise. Let me explain. I’ve been under a lot of stress lately (more than usual if you can […]
Group Work aka TRUST NO ONE
Weekly lesson: When the professor assigns group work, no matter who you work with, unless you are with your best friend or a very attractive member of the sex that you are attracted to…you will suffer. You will shake your fists at the sky in valiant attempts to not smack them across your fellow members’ […]
***Spring concerts***
Today the percussionists had a mini ragtime music concert outdoors (with only 2 marimbas and one xylophone as the instrumentation!). The idea of having it outside was cute and the music was cute, however the weather was not as cute as they probably expected from a Spring day! It was extremely windy and chilli. In […]
Compass Insanity
Have I mentioned I like geometry? Well in my current College Geometry Class (MATH 618) I’ve gotten a few smirks as I reach into my nifty pencil case and pull out my protractor – I like my circles to be like all my math, precise. Just today I saw this picture, and had a smirk of my […]
Wall of Weird
Recipe of the Week: Everything Salad What if these words were the first thing you saw every time you walk into the hallway: “My roommate caught me peeing on my girlfriend.” I’m pretty sure your reaction would look a little something like this: The RA’s on my floor did something a little different this […]
April…Just April
Well, will you look at that? I’m behind on my blog posts again. You know, I’d love to figure out exactly what it is I DO with all my time, since I never seem to be using it for anything school-related. Time-Management Extraordinaire, that’s me. Then again, it’s not really procrastinating. As a matter of […]
Will we ever Learn from HEDI?
New York Times Opinion Pages hits again. On April 12 an opinion piece called, “Teachers: Will We ever learn?,” by Jal Mehta, that gut wrenchingly challenged the ability of teachers to challenge the cognitive development of their students. The worst is when the author states, “By these criteria, American education is a failed profession.” A failed profession? To think that I’m […]
Wold of Jenks
http://kaylinsworld.com/ “I can’t live my life in constant fear preparing for cancer to come back. I have to move on just for…survival.”—Kaylin from MTV’s show World of Jenks. It thrills me that YA’s with cancer are coming “out” and exposing their lives for all to see and hear about. This is what Kaylin is doing […]
