The Good Musician loves great film music. Growing up with 50’s musical extravaganzas through the evolution to electronic and digital of today, I’m aware that what I hear in the movies is just as affecting as what I see. A great music and sound staff can pull a mediocre movie up to a decent one. […]
The Austin Chamber Music Festival kicks off tonight with a special concert featuring Peter Bay conducting George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with pianist Michelle Schumann. Also on the program is the world premiere of University of Texas composer Dan Welcher’s “Four Personal Ads,” featuring soprano Mela Dailey. The Cecilia String Quartet tops off the evening […]
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Do you have an articulated philosophy of music? You are welcome to post it here. In the meantime, I’ll share mine. To me, the term “good” musician means a person who dedicates their entire being to blow, scrape, strum, hit, teach, sing, learn, whistle, compose, tune, or otherwise practice music to the very best of […]
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Lots of good classical and jazz going on in Austin and regions this week. The Cactus Pear Music Festival features aspiring young musicians. Here’s a partial listing:
Sunday, July 6, 6:00 till 9:00 pm,
& Tuesday, July 8, 5:30 till 9:30 pm:
Shawn Ellison, jazz pianist
Truluck’s Seafood Restaurant
183 & Great Hills […]
Not so very blue, yet an important river, whatever color it may be.
Here’s Herbert von Karajan wafting down The Blue Danube Waltz.
Tags: , Budapest, Danube River, Hungary
This is cool. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture to commemorate the battle that broke the back of the French invasion under Napoleon. It was commissioned for the completion of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, which Tsar Alexander II meant as a memorial for the battle.
Tchaikovsky considered it crap. A sell-out. None-the-less, […]
John Cage composed music that regularly transgressed the boundaries of convention. A pupil of Schoenberg and Cowell, Cage came into his own during the 1960’s while teaching at the U of Illinois. He invented the prepared piano, a compositional technique to alter the sound of a single or several notes by using non-conventional items directly […]
Musical instruments hanging from the rafters in a very old, family restaurant in Szentendre, Hungary. Photo by TGM.
Szentendre (Saint Andrew) is a sleepy little village two hours up the Danube from Budapest. Artists and tailors and craftspeople spend the winter in the Carpathian Mountains and bring their wares to Szentendre in the summer to sell. […]
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