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V.T.C.M.A. - 4

Filed in Composition, Performance, Reviews, Strange Findings, Thought for the Day on September 23, 2007 at 8:22 pm

Check out this excellent video of the 1972 composition, A Flight of Virtuosity, for Six Handclappers, by Greg A. Steinke. This performance was conducted by Stephen Rochford (and featured my friend and colleague, Alan Mautner as one of the handclappers!). Stick with it - there is a moment in the middle that is especially hilarious! [...]

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New Additions to My Fiddle Family…

Filed in Reviews, Violin on June 30, 2007 at 1:17 am

As of the past few months, my violin Tommy

now has two new siblings!
Introducing Nigel:

And Flora:

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MusicProgramNotes.com

Filed in Composition, History, Inspiration, Performance, Reviews on April 26, 2007 at 10:38 pm

Congratulations to James for the official unveiling of his incredible new site - Music Program Notes!!
“Music Program Notes is a free, volunteer-powered, collaborative database of program notes for all genres and ensemble types, and anyone is welcome to contribute or use the program notes in our database for any non-commercial or educational purpose.”
You can read [...]

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Excellent Online Source - Quinn Violins

Filed in Performance, Reviews, Violin on March 14, 2007 at 11:47 pm

I have the great pleasure of being invited to play with Collegium Musicum, an Early Music ensemble at CGU in April (more details on the performance to follow shortly…). Well, to do so, I needed to purchase a set of gut strings for my Tommy - it would not suit the performance for my brilliant [...]

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V.T.C.M.A

Filed in Inspiration, Performance, Reviews, Strange Findings, Thought for the Day on February 21, 2007 at 9:26 pm

This is to say,….Videos That Caught My Attention.
I just really like these two music videos… perhaps this will inspire a multi-media variation on my spontaneous “Thought for the Day”s.
The first is a clip from Bollywood’s excellent film, Devdas. There are several moments I enjoy from it (one of these days maybe I’ll actually [...]