They say music is a universal language, so no translation necessary, right?
I love our ensemble.
music
Train of Thought Pictionary #1
Let’s play a little game.
Got it?? #6 might have required a little reverse engineering, but that wasn’t so hard, was it? Where will MJ’s nonsensical train of thought take you next?
4-year-old guest artist collaborators
My schedule has gotten rather packed and I’m not 100% certain that I can keep posting twice a week. So enjoy this filler post where I outsource my drawing task to my ~4-year-old piano students at the Old Town School.
I give kids five minutes of interpretive crayon-ing while I play a piece by a different composer each week. Sometimes the kids have pretty bizarre interpretations, like once a kid thought my Fur Elise sounded like Grandpa Dancing. Perhaps it’s a comment on my clunky playing. But this time, I played Prelude from Suite Bergamasque by Debussy, and one girl exclaimed, “I hear butterflies!” And Margaret produced yet another appropriately Impressionist masterpiece:
So that all makes me feel a little better about my playing.
How do you make the Golden Gate Bridge sing?
Don’t worry, yall, this is the last Golden Gate Bridge post… until its next birthday, maybe.
If you visit the Golden Gate Bridge and it is hiding, at least it will be serenading you with bassy fifths on its foghorns. So just sit back and enjoy the Golden Gate Bridge strip show.
We are Siamese if you don’t please
Where did this whole parallel-fifths-association-with-Asians thing come from anyway? Is it really even valid?? I’m looking at you too, Kung Fu Fighting song!
fix it with shading 