December 2011
10 posts
Musicworks @ Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music...
                                                                                                                                                     Musicworks is proud to partner with the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music for a double weekend of workshops in Park Slope this summer, including: SAT JULY 28: Inside the Band (ages 6-9) Songbuilding (ages 6-9) Storyhearing (ages 6-9) The...
Dec 19th
an elegant word on being musically 'gifted'
“Listening to and studying the masters is what informs me and inspires me to explore all the different possibilities of the drumset. Occaisionally I’ll hear someone say that they’ll never be able to perform as well as their idols do because they’re not gifted as their idols are. To those people I respond, “What’s the gift that those people have and you...
Dec 18th
best seat in the house
Tomal decides that the best spot during music class is right up in the front. I’ll take it as a compliment.
Dec 17th
Dec 16th
the devaluation of music part 2 (my reaction)
…from my FB response to Andrew D’Angelo’s original post… (lonnnnnng sigh) It’s a mindfuck of a situation. The article’s author makes a good point in that we are teaching people to assume if they listen to it that it’s free. That is hard to undo, in the same way that it is hard to convince people to buy organic local food instead of Costco mass...
Dec 14th
the devaluation of music
excerpted from Kids These Days: Spotify, Radiohead, and the Devaluation of Music by Cal Stamp] Boasting a catalog of over 15 million songs, Spotify offers free streaming access to its entire library through any laptop or mobile device. It’s ad supported, but subscribers willing to shell out $10 a month can enjoy their playlists without the interruption of advertisements… ...
Dec 13th
careful listening
Prescilla, 5th Grade:
Dec 12th
“Thank you for playing music today. I was crying before but now I am feeling...”
– Patrick (age 10), special needs music class with Elizabeth Pupo-Walker @14th Street Y)
Dec 11th
an interesting lineup makes for inspirational... →
This is How We Fly’ is a contemporary Folk band consisting of Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on fiddle & hardanger fiddle, Seán Mac Erlaine on bass clarinet, saxophones & live electronics, Nic Gareiss on percussive dance, and Petter Berndalen on drums and percussion.
Dec 8th
the lineup
(photo by Catherine Roosevelt)
Dec 2nd