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My Slope Day recommendations. The object of your disregard and ridicule.
Eve 6 (circa 2000)
All-American Rejects
Hoobastank (circa 2004)
Paramore
In order to fulfill a bargain negotiated between myself and a close friend, I am tasked with producing a list of my top ten favorite songs. Quel burden, yes? Perhaps, but so far, I am at least sure that Michelle Branch will make a conspicuous appearance on this list.
Who among us remembers when, [...]
As wikipedia’s article on the man states:
In general, Kabalevsky was not as adventurous as his contemporaries in terms of harmony and preferred a more conventional diatonicism, interlaced with chromaticism and major-minor interplay.
Music to my ears.
I recently reactivated my World of Warcraft account for a month’s time in part because I wanted to re-live my former days as a healer (I play a Tauren shaman on the Kil’Jaeden realm), but also because I wanted to see the new level 60-to-70 content that was added in the Burning Crusade expansion. [...]
Sergei Rachmaninoff died some three days before his 70th birthday in March of 1943. He was, as I would say, the last of the quintessential Romantics. I have no first-hand knowledge of the circumstances that followed his death, but I would wager that at least some of the world saw it as the [...]
The Vienna Boys Choir is coming to State Theatre here in Ithaca, New York, this Friday, November 30, 2007. Who knows why, but this is certainly not an opportunity that any Cornellian or Ithaca resident should pass up. Chances are though, most people will be out getting smashed this Friday (our last day of classes) [...]
The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) has closed its doors following legal warnings by Universal Edition. It will be missed. It was just a nice resource to have around whenever hearing a particular solo or passage in a piece inspired me to examine the manuscript in closer detail. I understand UE’s concern, but I [...]
Inspired by Heather Heise, I’d like to share with you a few things I hold quite dear to my heart: music that makes me cry, for all the same reasons enumerated by Heather that I could not have more honestly articulated myself: out of joy, out of great loss and heartbreak, out of the beauty [...]
This summer, around early June, I picked up my French horn for the first time in four years. It had, until then, been collecting dust in the corner of my bedroom at home in California, where I first left it behind as I embarked for college and a life of supposedly more important things. [...]
I would probably be considered liberal in regard to my opinions on most issues of some political relevance, and that would seem to suggest a similar kind of thinking in other respects too. Well, no; obviously, the human brain is not so simple. When it comes to classical music, for example, I am [...]
In the arena of classical music and its contemporary realization, there are a number of pieces that the public eagerly anticipates and expects to hear and that ensembles around the world accordingly incorporate into their repertoire: Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, this suite, that quartet, this sonata, that four-movement something-rather. [...]
My first visit to Cornell’s newly renovated Bailey Hall this last Wednesday was an occasion auspicious enough to coincide with a visit from the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (MSSO). As an invitee of the Cornell Concert Series, the MSSO traveled the four thousand odd miles separating its nation’s capital and the boondocks of central [...]