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The Philosophers Nook
Downloads and Links to Radio Stories about music and musicians I have found on the WWW
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NPR "Play without words
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NPR the Treble Violin
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NPR "Laptop Compositions"
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Sinesthesia article from NPR, Chors heard as colors
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NPR - New World Symphony series - Part I
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NPR - New World Symphony series - Part II
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NPR - New World Symphony series - Part III
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Victor Wooten
Outside of being a great bassist, it obvious that Mr. Wooten does a lot of good thinking. This site is definitly worth a browse 'n read.
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Studio 360 - Where art and real life collide
These downloadable interviews are worth the listen and you can get them when you have time instead of having to go to saturday at 4:00 on NPR.......It is great....check out the interview with Itzak perlman, Toby Perlman and "Can You Teach Art". |
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Neil Feather, Sound Mechanic
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Rice Music Career site
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Scraps and bits as the studio marches on
"These are thoughts from lessons as they come throughout the semester...take them for what they're worth. When I write them down they seem worth the time, but afterwards there I times when I can't imagine what I was thinking."
PJ
February 26th, 2004Off the String Bow Strokes
Tying to explain technical playing to a student reminds me of nothing so much as trying to write an equation for the a painting by Rembrandt. I know it can be done, but in a way we don't understand. I'm putting these notes down for my current students to refer to because the maddness of the lesson leaves little time for writing. I qualify my notes because out of context they seem sheer madness..... it might well be;0 ;)
Machine gun therapy...- Crash therapy
- Horizontal
- Vertica
- Bubble therapy
- Strokin
- The big Red Ball
- Sweeper therapy
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February 7th, 2004
The Wooden Chain
My grandfather before he passed, gave me from his hord of wondrous things a wooden chain about 8 feet long. Yeah, wooden...very cool.
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February 7th, 2004
The Big Red Ball
Ah yes... the big red ball. |
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February 5th, 2004
Paradox, The Ying and The Yang
Lately, I have been having a lot of conversations with some students regarding the paradoxes and dichotomy found in playing music. It seems to me that things that are in the way of being a better musician are always at the nexus of competing forces.
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January 8th, 2004
Some suggestions for learners...
1. Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for a while. Always be around. Come or go to everything, always go to classes, read anything you can get your hands on, look carefully and often. Save everything; it might come in handy later.
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January 8th, 2004
Keep Your Fork
"I want to be buried with a fork in my right hand." The pastor stood looking at the young woman, not knowing quite what to say. "That surprises you, doesn't it?" the young woman asked.
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January 8th, 2004
Modern Education and Testing
So much of modern education has taken on a similar form. We go to class, sit in the same desks, and are often fed the same material from the same syllabus as the last class and then tested to make sure we were paying attention.
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