The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) tagged twenty-six U.S. colleges and universities for file sharing. Five hundred and sixty-nine letters went to students across the country, reports Wired Campus, the Chronicle of Higher Education online ‘zine.
Some universities have refused to forward letters from RIAA to students, and others cite the Family Educational Rights and […]
The University of Texas at Austin recently received the largest gift to any public higher ed music department in history. The school will be named the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music to honor their 25 year support of music at UT-Austin. More than half of the monies will go toward students’ needs. This […]
Traveling from Tibet to the Middle-East, here’s a treasure trove of traditional and pop that in one song can morph to pop to rap and back again. I defy you to not want to get up and dance when you hear Shab Jilani in front of old and new music, velvety voice wrapped around sinuous […]
Tibet has been much in the news lately, which got me thinking about the remarkable music found there. Relatively unchanged for millenia, the raw, vibrant power of the alpen-horn like dung-chen echoes through the Himalayas. One can learn a lot about a culture by studying their music. If all invading armies stopped at the […]
My daughter never had a chance. Her mom was a musician before she was born. By the time I was six months pregnant, I found I couldn’t get a deep enough breath to execute a Bach sonata line. And if you’re crazy enough to attempt a Bach melodic line, you prepare by ramping up […]
Heard of tapping? This is a stringed instrument played by tapping the strings on the frets, sorta like playing piano–no strumming or picking. The Tappistry Guild is a whole mess of people who play this style on guitar, bass, et al.
Traktor Topaz put out a very cool series of lessons for the tapper, you should […]
Clay Collins, clever chronicler at Copyblogger, came up with “Six Ways that Bloggers are like Rappers.” The similarities are plausible, until you think about it, then…well, you decide.
Austin is under a tornado watch tonight, which reminds me of music depicting great storms, or emotional upheaval. Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) describes a cultural […]
I was browsing through some old music textbooks and came across a couple of cardboard name tags that read
ETSU
Summer Camper
1982
Evidently I took Renaissance and Baroque music that spring or fall. I worked for the music department’s Summer Camps while in graduate school, with a six-year old. This is not extraordinary on the surface, except […]
Bad joke. Hang around music departments long enough, and you’ll hear all of them. What’s the difference between a violin and a viola? A viola burns longer. Is that not just cruel? It’s an egalitarian type of dark humor, though. The original voice part of the “mi-mi-mi” joke was a tenor, so see? […]
a new world
Sydney, Australia was home from 1994-96. Sights, smells, sounds, Australia has the best of just about everything. I was wildly fortunate to sing for most of that time with the Sydney Philharmonia Choir, performing in the Sydney Opera House and the ABC Orchestra studio.
Classical music was abundant, but so was phenomenal […]
Be a successful musician, one note at a time.
Written by Claudia Snowden [email] for b5media.
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