Undiscovered Country
The “lost” arrangement was discovered by University of Manchester’s Professor Barry Cooper and it goes a little something like this.
Month: October 2012
Zombie Beethoven
I think I could pull off a decent zombie Beethoven.
Scary Music
Halloween is just about a week away. Are you ready? Do you have your costume picked out? Do you have your playlist of scary music ready for the trick-or treaters? Did you buy an extra bag of candy because you’ll keep one for yourself? If not…you have a week to get it sorted. Good luck!
Plumeology
Most plumes actually have very fancy sounding names like French Upright, French Fountain, Phantom, Cavalier etc. I think it’s more fun to call them by these names. My high school had the rooster plumes. They were a pain in the butt because they were so big. They couldn’t fit into nice cardboard tubes like the … Read more
Lonely Road
I didn’t want to weigh in on this issue until I had re-read The Hobbit. After re-reading the book, I think it’s a bad idea. There’s just not enough material in the one book to warrant three films. Granted, there is plenty of other Tolkien material to pull from like The Silmarillion and the original … Read more
Suite Ride
I was always surprised by how many instruments we could fit into our cars in high school/college. I’m just happy no one every got into an accident while hauling around thousands of dollars worth of instruments!
Dark Roast
Did you ever have early music classes? Not “early” as in the time of day but early as in, elementary school early. I wasn’t lucky enough to have early childhood music classes when I was a kid. My first band class was in middle school. But, I did get to learn about early childhood music … Read more
Kick It
I honestly agree with Rhoads’ in today’s Comic. If one of the orchestras that really needed financial help put on a well thought out Kickstarter campaign, I think they could raise a substantial amount of money. Plenty of smaller ensembles have had great success with Kickstarter. I’m not aware of any large ensembles that have … Read more