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SugarStrings: February 2007
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Music, fashion, fun. Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Our friend and harpist extraordinaire, Rashida Naomi Black, has launched a new site for musicians called the Myrtle Hart Society. MyrtleHart.org). MHS is "an Internet-based music research and educational resource committed to illuminating the historical and contemporary accomplishments of classical musicians of color.". So who's Myrtle Hart? Tuesday, February 27, 2007. Why couldn't you just read the notes and then play 'em? In this way, he'd work out the...
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SugarStrings: The Triada Music Festival
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Music, fashion, fun. Wednesday, March 7, 2007. The Triada Music Festival. Summer camp is a great opportunity for music students to strengthen skills and make new friends. Many offer scholarships. Last summer, the girls of SugarStrings attended the Triada Music Festival. Http:/ www.triadamusicfestival.org/. In Ludlow, Vermont, for a month of rigorous instruction, practice, performance (solo and. Cellist Mara McClain, one of the founders of Triada. Offers the following thoughts about the Triada. Along with...
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Sister Feelgood: 5/25/14 - 6/1/14
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Health, fitness and well-being ripped from the pages of the best selling book by Donna Marie Williams. It's on! Wednesday, May 28, 2014. RIP, Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou kindly gave me permission to reprint her story "New Directions" ( Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey Now). In my book Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul. Here's one pearl from the excerpt:. You may write me down in history. With your bitter, twisted lies,. You may tread me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise. I am the dream and ...
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Love My Violin: March 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. I am at the Ritz Carlton right now! I am about to perform for this event. Guess who's being honored. Alexandra and John Nichols! They are the most generous and sweet people you will ever meet. They are also HUGE supporters of the Music Institute of Chicago where I study music — so HUGE that the hall at MIC's Evanston's campus is named after them! I was so excited and honored to be asked to play for them! And here I am blogging to you when it's about to happen! Blog to ya soon!
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Love My Violin: April 2011
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Monday, April 25, 2011. Long time no blog! I have some very exciting news for you. I'm going to BERMUDA! OK, so you’re probably wondering how I got this honor and pleasure. Well I'm actually wondering the same thing. Uh, how DID I get this opportunity? I think David France at the Bermuda School of Music. Knows my AMAZING teacher, Almita Vamos, so he either just wanted some of her students to come and perform or he heard or saw me at competitions or something. I'll blog to you about those later. L-r) Mira...
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Love My Violin: May 2011
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Sunday, May 22, 2011. Ayanna used me and Mira to practice her photo taking skills. What do you think? Why is my violin upside down? OK, so what's so funny? Just strumming my banjo eee hah! Fierce jump for joy! Hope we don't land on our instruments! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Adé Williams, 13, is 1st violinist for SugarStrings. Music Institute of Chicago. Mrs Almita Vamos (Northwestern University). Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation. Music Institute of Chicago. Hyde Park Suzuki Institute.
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Love My Violin: The show must go on! (part 2)
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Monday, June 20, 2011. The show must go on! Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. Right after I found out Okemo won 1st place in the SAM competition, I was so sick that I slept right through the DePaul winners' recital! I was supposed to solo with DePaul's Oistrach Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Mina Zikri because. I won one of the divisions. I was going to play Meditation from Thais. I love that piece! That was one of the performances in April. February 9, 2013 at 1:34 AM.
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Love My Violin: Goofing off
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Sunday, May 22, 2011. Ayanna used me and Mira to practice her photo taking skills. What do you think? Why is my violin upside down? OK, so what's so funny? Just strumming my banjo eee hah! Fierce jump for joy! Hope we don't land on our instruments! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Adé Williams, 13, is 1st violinist for SugarStrings. Music Institute of Chicago. Mrs Almita Vamos (Northwestern University). Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation. Music Institute of Chicago. Hyde Park Suzuki Institute.
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Sister Feelgood: 7/20/14 - 7/27/14
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Health, fitness and well-being ripped from the pages of the best selling book by Donna Marie Williams. It's on! Saturday, July 26, 2014. The black Mona Lisa of Pinterest. Who is she, this mystery woman with the secret smile and beautiful natural hair? Ever since I pinned her picture to my Sister Feelgood Pinterest board several months ago, she has been repinned 901 times and liked 281 times! That's a record for me! Day 47 – Break down big goals. I will rethink my narrow definitions of success. Contact Do...
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Sister Feelgood: Gymnast Lloimincia Hall's got the funk, is PERFECTION
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Health, fitness and well-being ripped from the pages of the best selling book by Donna Marie Williams. It's on! Monday, September 15, 2014. Gymnast Lloimincia Hall's got the funk, is PERFECTION. Where have I been? Lloimincia Hall competed in February 2013 and earned a perfect score of 10, but hey, better late than never. Watching this, I just can't stop smiling. She is clearly doing her own thang, and doing it to perfection. And isn't it just wonderful how her teammates and the crowd supported her? 365 d...
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