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Random thoughts from the piano bench: Compin' it up
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Saturday, March 20, 2010. I have no witty line to open up this blog post, and I have no apologies for taking three months to write it. Time is moving in weird ways for me, simultaneously compressed and expanded. Once again, rather than try to be poetic ('cause I'm not sure that's ever successful), I'll just give you a run-down. Except there generally aren't space monsters to capture you, and the closest mountains are about a thousand miles away). Yeah, so, Little Town.
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: April 2009
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Sunday, April 26, 2009. Get Down, Monkey Around! WHO SAYS MUSICOLOGISTS DON'T KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN? Every time I see this, I get a techno-funk beat in my head. If I were to notate it, it would be in 4/4 time, with the following rhythm and text underlay: . Eighth rest, eighth note, quarter note, 4 sixteenth notes tied to a quarter :. 160; :. What can I say, it's been a long semester. . Saturday, April 25, 2009. Sunday, April 12, 2009. 1 Another voice recital...
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: And now, a word from our sponsors: Food and Procrastination
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Sunday, April 12, 2009. And now, a word from our sponsors: Food and Procrastination. Sadly, the university has taken it upon itself to eliminate this quite wonderful piece of graffiti. Luckily I snapped this before the paint police came in. . TWO THINGS DOWN, APPROXIMATELY A MILLION AND EIGHT TO GO. I don't really have a million things to do, it just feels like that. . Here's what I've done so far in the Final Chapter of Spring 2009:. What do you think? Plus I'm appl...
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: Meet Me in St Louis
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Monday, May 4, 2009. Meet Me in St Louis. IT'S A PRETTY DARN TALL ARCH. Dinner was at an Irish Pub: . We split a pretty good dessert, but I don't know if it's blog-worthy. My dinner was, though. It was decidedly not Irish, but it was delicious: spinach salad, chevre (melted in my mouth! Strawberries, candied pecans, red onions, blackened shrimp (mmm, spicy) in a honey-lime vinaigrette. YUM! WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE PIANO LESSONS. Ok, this youtube video. 2 Choir concert #1.
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: The Piano Bench on the Prairie
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Saturday, October 3, 2009. The Piano Bench on the Prairie. Well, hello there. Remember me? Whether you do or you don't is irrelevant, because now I have a brand new life. At least that's what it's felt like, although I'm adjusting pretty well. Allow me to back up a moment, remember this job. Jobs = successful, right? And go to the Bijou. So anyway, I'm "back" to "blogging," for whatever that's worth. Evidently it's been about four months (FOUR MONTHS? Since my last p...
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: November 2009
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Thursday, November 12, 2009. Let's hear it for Norse Paganism! I have a new niece! Her name is Freya Elizabeth, and she was born at 12:49 pm, November 12. Welcome Freya! She joins her older brother Thor (yes, my brother-in-law likes names from Scandinavian mythology. And Katie. Katie's the middle child, incidentally. Hope she won't feel left out! Speaking of Katie, here is a my new favorite picture: Halloween '09 with Bat-a-rina. Yay, a baby! View my complete profile.
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: Scythian Empires
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Wednesday, December 16, 2009. A picture of his monkey on the altar/stage (the concert was at an Episcopal cathedral):. The ticket said 7 pm, so I showed up early (5:30) so I wouldn't have to wander around downtown Minneapolis in the cold to find a parking spot. Little did I know that the doors opened at 7 and the concert started at 8. So I got a fantastic parking spot and an even better seat inside the church (4th row! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Brahms - Pia...
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: January 2009
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Wednesday, January 28, 2009. VI - IV - I - V :II. Now for your listening pleasure, Take on Me shows up again. Along with 30 other songs. . I have to think more about this . does it demonstrate . 2) the ignorance of the music-listening public? 3) that humans as listeners are easily satisfied with this simple chord progression? The modern day Pachelbel canon. Wednesday, January 21, 2009. I haven't read this. On to the scale marathon, Liszt, and Prokofiev! I have my dou...
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: September 2008
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Sunday, September 21, 2008. Last week a drunk Hawkeye Fan told me that I look like Sarah Palin. SARAH PALIN. WTF. I was so angry by that I could barely squeak out words to explain why she is one of the most evil women in history, with the possible exception of Phyllis Schlafly. Grr. Grrrrr. Anyway, I just read this post. Maybe there is hope and I don't have to become totally disillusioned with our country yet. . Currently listening to: . Also on heavy rotation: .
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Random thoughts from the piano bench: February 2009
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Random thoughts from the piano bench. Friday, February 13, 2009. It probably won't help me translate those scholarly Ligeti articles . But here is a German site. That is amusing. Amusing in that whole I-find-humor-in-the-absurd way (which I do). . And you know, for pianists, this maxim is certainly true:. Gute Handgelenkarbeit ist sein größter Vorzug." . Thursday, February 12, 2009. Before I forget, I stumbled across this rather good blog by pianist Jeremy Denk the other day. This post. Friends" = "Faceb...
