Name: Becky Pritchard City, State of Residence: Gaithersburg, MD Occupation: Pritchard Music owner, horn teacher, chamber ensemble coach Favorite Instrument to Play: French horn Becky Pritchard, along with her husband Joe opened Pritchard Music-Kentlands in 2009. She is the Director of Music Education overseeing their 260 students while keeping an active teaching schedule herself. Becky […]
Theater Show Review – Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group enjoys a vast and well-deserved following. If you’re a fan, you already know about their truly unique performance style, and if you’ve attended the Las Vegas theater show in the Luxor or Venetian hotels (they are currently back at the Luxor), you are well aware of the group’s high-energy multi-media entertainment, which […]
Homophone Harmony
A had an epiphany yesterday morning. Father and idea are doing fine. But seriously… For the past handful of years I’ve been updating Word Sound Guide, a website that explains the basic differences between various homophones (words that sound the same but have different meanings). It occurred to me that I could sort of “massage” […]
My Favorite Musical Pieces
Music is my religion. Whether I’m listening or performing, my favorite pieces provoke strong emotions and/or provide enjoyment or relaxation. I’m sure most of you are the same with your favorites. Recorded or live, slow or fast, with others or alone: The right chords, rhythms, and (sometimes) words can transcend this crude matter called a […]
Pops – The Classical Cousin
To some, pops concerts are the first cousins to traditional orchestral concerts. If you say “classical music” to the average person, what will they think of? Their brains may spout a couple of well-known composers like Mozart or Beethoven, or perhaps an internationally known group like the London Symphony Orchestra. But mention a “pops concert” […]
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