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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: Five Things: A Challenge
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Sunday, May 3, 2015. Five Things: A Challenge. There was a challenge traveling around the education part of Twitter recently with the hashtag #makeschooldifferent. The challenge, begun by Scott McLeod ( Dangerously Irrelevant. So here is my list of five things. I'm writing as an audience member, music lover, and the parent of a young aspiring musician. We need to stop pretending:.
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: Dipping a toe into arranging
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Dipping a toe into arranging. The school where I teach has an annual Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly every January. It's quite a big production. There's music, skits, excerpts from MLK's speeches, and faculty and students, and often outside experts, are all involved. I plan to try it again. I have some ideas for horn quartets that I hope to try this ...
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: July 2014
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Monday, July 28, 2014. To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.". An article in the Sunday Chicago Tribune of July 20, 2014, titled " A classic case of tryout panic. The Tribune article went on to discuss the audition process and how it has changed from an informal audition with the music director, often in his hotel room, to a structured proc...
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: A Slice of Musical Life
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. A Slice of Musical Life. This past Sunday was a special day for me musically. The concert band that both my husband and I play in had its last concert of the year and our daughter, who also plays horn, and I were featured on a solo. The road to this solo performance was winding and full of roadblocks. But no, my husband was determined that we would play. ...
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: Talent: Nature or Nurture?
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Saturday, October 5, 2013. Talent: Nature or Nurture? Some time ago I watched this video on the Horn Insights blog. It irritated me, even though I agreed with some of the ideas. The ideas come from a book titled Talent is Overrated. By Geoffry Colvin. I haven't read this book, but I did eventually read The Talent Code. From NPR. It looks at cellist Matt Haimovitz, a former chi...
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: March 2015
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Dipping a toe into arranging. The school where I teach has an annual Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly every January. It's quite a big production. There's music, skits, excerpts from MLK's speeches, and faculty and students, and often outside experts, are all involved. I plan to try it again. I have some ideas for horn quartets that I hope to try this ...
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: Perfection versus Musicality
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Monday, July 28, 2014. To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.". An article in the Sunday Chicago Tribune of July 20, 2014, titled " A classic case of tryout panic. The Tribune article went on to discuss the audition process and how it has changed from an informal audition with the music director, often in his hotel room, to a structured proc...
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: June 2014
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Thursday, June 19, 2014. Last week we went to a rehearsal of the Chicago Symphony. We usually get two invitations a year to open rehearsals and since it's now summer and school is out, I was able to go! Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang A. Mozart. I have seen Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus. And you can even find the complete text, in English. What does genius look like? Why can't everyon...
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: December 2013
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Monday, December 30, 2013. Their question is really open-ended, but I decided for now to limit it to a few live concert listening experiences that made an impact on me. Jumping forward three years, I graduated college and moved to Chicago to study with Dale Clevenger, having convinced him to accept me as a student. (Go here for that story. How would you answer? Links to this post.
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: December 2014
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Life as an after-hours musician. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. About Life in Flow:Flow in Life. Sunday, December 7, 2014. Poking Around in the New York Phil's Archives. Along with a slide show of other pages. Schulze was a member of the horn section in the early 20th century. Besides parts, you can search scores, programs, images, and business documents. I'm sure this is useful to music students, but also very interesting to music lovers in general. Photo of Antonin Dvorak.