Musical Tree

The other day I was thinking about music teachers and the idea occurred to me that you could trace your musical history like you could your family history. If you were to follow your teachers’ teachers back through time you would end up with something like a family tree, except it would be a musical

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San Francisco Symphony

After a very long week I could do little more than lay around in Huntington Park on Nob Hill today but tonight I caught the F Train to Davies Symphony Hall to see Michael Tilson Thomas conduct the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in an all Brahms concert. Lief Ove Andsnes played the Second Piano Concerto

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Seeqpod

Seeqpod is cool. Basically, it’s a music search engine and flash-based player. Apparently they don’t believe there are any copyright issues as they don’t host the tracks themselves but just link to them. It works really well. For example, I really like the music on this cool Sprint ad, so I loaded up seeqpod and

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Another Austral concert

I’ve decided to put on another Austral Sinfonietta concert. A break of nearly five years must be long enough to dull the memory of the stress and expense these things cause. The concert is on September 6 and I’m at that scary stage where things have been booked, money has been paid but I’m still

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Bleep

I decided to treat myself for going to the dentist today, so I bought some music from Bleep. This is a really great and unique music download site with lots of interesting music that is totally DRM free. That’s right, according to their FAQ: “We believe that most people like to be treated as customers

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CCO 10th anniversary

It was the Corinthian Chamber Orchestra’s 10th anniversary concert on Saturday night. It was a great concert with a full audience. The programme was: Mozart: Magic Flute Overture Elgar: Cello Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No 5 Richard Jenkinson performed the Elgar and we played the overture from Marriage of Figaro as an encore The concert was

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The second Austral concert

What are we doing? Well, the recent past has been mostly taken up with organising the second Austral Sinfonietta concert. Held at the same venue, it was, by all accounts, an improvement on the first one last year. The orchestra played extremely well (after a scarily small number of rehearsals) and the audience was at

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