“Sightlines” audio book video log begins!
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This video log is now posted on You Tube and more will be coming, too.
To view this video log, click on “full story” below.
This video log is now posted on You Tube and more will be coming, too.
Yesterday, after we’d played old-time music for hours at the Alton Sesquicenntential, 12-year-old N. and I came back to the house for a classical music lesson, and worked for 1 1/2 hours more. Here’s a method I’ve figured out for learning a piece of music by approximation. You can use the same learning method on…
Mary Cunningham and Diana Black feature Janet Riehl on Bookland Heights. Wanna know how Pop is responding to all this fame? Here’s your answer.
What do singing on Broadway, training dogs, and mastering the art of the business pitch have in common? Patience, preparation, and perspective. I learned this valuable lesson from a young friend Annemieke Farrow (daughter of Stephanie and John Farrow of Albuquerque, New Mexico). Annemieke transitioned from a successful theater career in New York City to…
I know you’ll enjoy Maggie Claire’s description of her writing process for “As If It Didn’t Happen.” What I love best about her process is the interaction between writing and music. –JGR ____________________ Have you ever peered into the water and seen yourself looking back? Often, the person looking back at me looks familiar but…
How a Ten Dollar Bill Became a Song From: “Old time songs and poems,”written by Edith LaFrancis “Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton, Simmon seed, and sandy bottom. Look away! Look away! Look away, Dixie Land!” Daniel Decatur Emmett, a performer in Bryant’s Minstrels, in New York City, laid down his…
“Child and Hawk Dream,” by Judy Tart Click here to find an audio link of my talk “Memento Mori: Life and Death Moment by Moment” at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Riverside on March 16, 2008. You’ll also hear brief cello interludes by Dennis Dettloff. About 20 minutes. Unfortunately, this doesn’t give you Tiffany Alvarado’s…