Most anyone who reads this and cares about classical music has probably already heard about this recent article in Cleveland’s weekly alt-newspaper, Scene. It addresses the lack of audition screens at Cleveland Orchestra auditions and the influence of concertmaster William Preucil on ... Continue Reading
Liveblogging from the USF Symphony Orchestra concert. We are in between dress and concert and hit in about 15 minutes. I had planned on doing some homework, but dinner took too long and there is no place to do the requisite listening here. I described the program here, so I won’t d ... Continue Reading
Re-Posted from the USF Jazz Blog Wednesday, February 07, 2007 The joint Junior Recital of USF Jazz Studies juniors Alejandro Arenas and Mark Feinman presented attendees with a well-conceived showcase for drums and double bass. A considerable crowd turned out to hear this duo, accompanied ... Continue Reading
I began teaching at my alma mater autumn 2005. Upon graduation just a year earlier, I swore I would never step foot on the campus again. Growing pains (the school had less than 1000 students when I arrived in 2000 and enrolls over 3000 today) had made my time at the University unpleasan ... Continue Reading
Rashaan Roland Kirk and John Cage in a Dick Fontaine film (for television?) entitled “Sound.” Continue Reading
