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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: Mozart vs. Korngold, or Why Mozart should not be the Poster Child for the 10,000 hours crowd
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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, June 6, 2015. Mozart vs. Korngold, or Why Mozart should not be the Poster Child for the 10,000 hours crowd. Mozart is frequently used as the example for how having three key elements - 10,000 hours of practice, an excellent teacher or coach, and focused practice - lead to extraordinary performance in any field. I have written before in blogpost. And also in a comment.
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Life in Flow:Flow in Life: October 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. Saturday, October 12, 2013. Mozart and . Vampires? While I was searching online for yet another Mozart book, the novel Mozart's Blood. Popped up on the screen. It's a vampire novel! With Mozart as a character! How bizarre and ridiculous! Mozart is an important part of the story, though he only appears briefly, and his music is also important to the entire novel. And there's al...
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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: May 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, May 25, 2014. Gazing into the Crystal Ball. Catching up on my reading this weekend, I just read the New York Times article " Tested Out Upstate: Classicals's Future. The beautiful Eastman Theater, where the Rochester Philharmonic plays. What are these orchestras doing? Or is it simply a way to bring in needed ticket revenue? European orchestras don't have these problems...
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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...