Who’s your musical hero? Gloria Estefan? Leonard Bernstein? Reba McEntire? B. B. King? Bill Watrous? Evelyn Glennie? John Philip Sousa? Mozart? Madonna? Pentatonix? Green Day? Some of us elevate our favorite actors, athletes, or other celebrities to a level of deity-like perfection beyond what is reasonable, and it’s no different in the music world. To […]
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” […]
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” […]
Time to Tune
One major difference between professional ensembles and many amateur ensembles is the focus on tuning instruments before the rehearsal or performance. Pros know how helpful this is, since it’s obvious how awful an out-of-tune band or orchestra can be – kind of like a car horn or the old nails-on-the-blackboard sound. I am constantly amazed […]
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