Tag Archives: arts
Pheedback Needed Phor Phat Beatz
This is the postlude of the piece, and there is a lot of narration (which you cannot hear because the MIDI does not execute it). I may tinker with the very end a little bit, but this is about 98 … Continue reading
A Bear, Poked
In Defense of the Arts Ok. So, a friend posted a link to a column from the Daily Texan, the student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin. The author of the column views arts education in the university … Continue reading
Narrating a Meta-Narrative
Words ‘N Music Progress is being made on the dissertation. Slowly, surely. I’ve developed a much clearer sense of the overall form, as well as the structure of subsections within each larger portion of the work, and today I’ve begun … Continue reading
Nov. 2, 1920 (An Election) – Charles Ives and the Time Machine
This is My Reward for Score ID Study (Well, this and Hopefully Passing) Hello again, this time from the library. In the middle of comprehensive exams with two down and one to go. I think that I’m doing alright so … Continue reading
In Studying, Wisdom. Who Knew?
Bonds on Mahler Next week I’m taking my doctoral common comprehensive exams, and in studying, I’m reviewing as many readings as I can fit in. From the chapter “Ambivalent Elysium” in his excellent book about the post-Beethoven handling of the … Continue reading
Learning to Lose Graciously and Live Gratefully
Neil Patrick Harris Never Went Through This It just occurred to me that, all those years ago when he was still a precocious child doctor on Doogie Howser, M.D., Neil Patrick Harris was saddled with a completely stupid character name. … Continue reading
The Waiting Games
Time is a Sphere, Not a Cube Today was a day that was loaded with meaning and learning. It began on something less than a positive note. I woke up to find that I’m still sick, and worse than I … Continue reading
We Don’t Keep Score. We Keep Records.
DMA Recital Recording All of the pieces from the recital have been uploaded now. I am providing links the files here so that it’s easy to get about between them. Also, these posts allow for sharing on facebook/twitter, so if … Continue reading
Gratitude
Reciting the Versus On Sunday May 1, I presented my DMA Composition Recital at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. The recording is still forthcoming, but one of the pieces was an electroacoustic work that I … Continue reading