This past Sunday I had to first-time experiences with Jazz. First, it was my first time going to the Jazz Standard, a very classy venue/restaurant which is popular for having great current Jazz musicians play there. Secondly, it was my first time seeing a jazz orchestra live! And boy, it was great! It was Maria […]
Music
Thanks for music.
Two days ago, one of my peers from high school, who I was friends with for a little, Kyle Larson, passed away. He fell of his skateboard in the city and was ran over by a truck…It’s a tragic story but all I felt was weird when I first heard the news. He was only […]
Circus Turnout
So the Cage Circus was as weird and fun as I expected it to be. Memorable moments: when the performer of the amplified cactus piece gave his half eaten apple to a theatrical dancer wearing a mask… …when we all performed Cage’s 4’33” piece which is literally 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence and […]
MUSIC CIRCUS! Come one come ALL!
Hoorah! After all this crazy weather, it is time to get ready for my performance in the upcoming CAGE MUSIC CIRCUS on Monday! I have already posted about John Cage, the philosophical composer of the 20th century who’s music is definitely “out there.” In the second half of his career, he started writing chance pieces […]
ba-ba-Bach!
There’s one composer that’s so hard not to like when you study his works intensely in school, and that is the infamous J.S Bach. Before I began my music degree, I thought Bach was boring because he was from the Baroque period. I was judging him solely on the fact he was from a time […]
Yoga of sound
Today I had one of the best unplanned master classes at the Aaron Copland School of Music. As some of us QC students may know, it’s the year of India. In honor of India, the music school had a special guest: Indian flutist Steve Gorn perform a concert at 10 am, LeFrak Hall.. I was […]
Balkanization!
One of my absolute favorite type of music has to be the sounds of the Balkan and Gypsy culture. From the loud brassy explosions to the energetic fiddles, I love it all. The scales are exotic and you cant stop yourself from dancing. If a part of your body is not moving while listening to […]
Song for smokers and slackers.
My first French chanson of this semester: Hôtel by Poulenc. FRANCIS POULENC: A Neo-Classical composer of the 20th century(around the same time as Igor Stravinsky and a little after Claude Debussy). HÔTEL: Lyrics by Guillaume Apollinaire. A song about being in a tight Hotel room, wanting to do nothing but smoke aka très francais. Translation […]
Cage Madness.
This month is the 100th anniversary of the infamous contemporary composer, John Cage. I’ve only started getting into his music this semester for I will be performing some of his works at a Cage Circus which will be performed at the Aaron Copland School of Music this November. So far everything I’ve heard of his […]
Jumbo Shrimp 2011-09-22 10:31:36
Do you know what drives me absolutely CRAZY? People that clip their nails on the train/bus. So disgusting!
In other news, I’m going to go see Opeth and Katatonia tonight. I’m quite jazzed.
