I’ve had the giggles this week, especially while teaching. It all started with the electrifying performances at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (www.cliburn.tv). The poise of these young performers is almost unbelievable, and their death-defying acts of pianism are inspiring, amazing, exciting, and rejuvenating. I can’t tell you how many times in the last few days I’ve [...]
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Irony in the Teaching Trenches
Posted in Music, Performing, Teaching, tagged linkedin, van cliburn competition on June 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Van Cliburn Competition: Seeing the Mountaintop
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged van cliburn piano competition on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes it’s really important to see just what the tippy-top highest standard in your field of endeavor is: Pianists can see the tip of the mountaintop at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. It’s one of the most exciting events in classical music, and those of you who think that that’s equivalent to “one of the [...]
Black Friday Jam
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged jamming on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t think of anything worse than setting foot inside a store — any store — the weekend after Thanksgiving. To me, Black Friday is an idiocy; I don’t care if they’re GIVING HDTVs away; I’m not going. So I’m part of another, different tradition: A group of us get together to play and perform music. Thanksgiving [...]
Fod Fest Footage
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged Daniel Pearl, FOD Fest, FODFest on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some unedited footage from the West Coast leg of the Fod Fest tour. Wish I could have been there! http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45501975
More on Fod Fest
Posted in Creative Communities, Music, Performing, tagged Daniel Pearl, FOD Fest, FODFest on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The fourth annual FODFest is in full swing, and I wanted to describe what playing at opening night was like so anyone living near one of the 14 concert venues can get a feel for why this is something you shouldn’t miss. The opening night concert had by far the biggest and most impressive venue on the [...]
Post FodFest Concert
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged FOD Fest, FODFest on October 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We did the first concert tonight, and I’m too exhausted to blog about it. But here’s (most of) the schedule: 10/10 – Mahaiwe Theater, Great Barrington, MA 10/11 –Narrows Arts Center, Fall River, MA 10/12 – Acoustic Café, Bridgeport, CT 10/13 – Sullivan Hall, NYC 10/14 – IOTA, Washington, DC 10/15 – The Grey Eagle, Asheville, [...]
Post Concert Lull
Posted in Music, Performing on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weekend’s over. Band is gone. House is quiet, almost eerie. Whew! Practice all afternoon Friday, and Saturday. Frayed tempers as somewhere in the neghborhood of 10 musicians living in 5 different states realized that we can’t throw together 20-something songs some of us have never played before (and others of us have never HEARD before) in two days and make [...]
Live on the Radio
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged FOD Fest, FODFest on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A little interruption in the teaching series here. Check back later in the week — well, more likely next week — for more articles on artists who teach. This weekend, we’ve got some other stuff taking center stage — namely, us. David and I are playing at Sheffield’s Dewey hall on Saturday night. And NEXT week, we’re [...]
Essential Skills for Artists: Public Speaking
Posted in Business Issues, Freelancing, Performing, tagged public speaking on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Artists seem to fall into one of two categories: Either we are at home in front of the footlights, flirting with interviewers and seducing audiences, or we are nervous wrecks, cowering in the back of the room hoping no one will call on us. Some of us are both: I am completely comfortable giving a prepared talk to an audience [...]
FOD Fest
Posted in Music, Performing, tagged Daniel Pearl, FOD Fest, FODFest on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m figuring that most of you will recognize the name Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was murdered in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002. I’m also figuring that you don’t know that Danny (as he was known to his friends) was also a musician. Before Danny was a Wall Street Journal reporter, he worked for the Berkshire Eagle, the [...]
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