This video, from the always-awesome TED series, made my heart race and tore it out too. A brilliant talk by one of the most interesting people in music today. I dare anyone to take part in his “experiment” and not be moved. (Thanks to Diana Bauer for pointing me to it…)
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The Missoula Symphony Orchestra has quite a diverse program on tap this weekend, including one of my personal favorite works in the entire orchestral repertoire: music from Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe.” For those curious about the show, I decided to put together a compilation of clips from YouTube.
Here’s the entire “Daphnis and [...]
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One of my fellow newsies forwarded a link to this amazing rant written by a certain Douglas Britt, the visual art and society reporter at the Houston Chronicle. It seems Mr. Britt has grown tired of creative types getting creative in how they communicate with him. If they’d just stick to the system and follow “simple instructions,” it would make everything better! Unfortunately, those “simple instructions” come in the form of a rambling, 1,400-word screed that I, for one, would have a hard time following even if I had to. It’s worth a cursory read, but only in the same way that a train wreck is worth craning your neck to see as you drive by.
Yet there’s definitely a part of me that sympathizes with Mr. Britt’s plight. [Read More...]
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The String Orchestra of the Rockies will open its 2010-2011 season this weekend with a pair of concerts in Bozeman and Missoula. On the program are two short seasonally themed works: the “Summer” concerto from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons; and the “Summer” movement from Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla’s “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.”
Though the two pieces were written hundreds of years apart, they share plenty: They’re vividly colorful, rhythmically bouyant, and just plain exciting pieces of music.
As it happens, there are a couple of really excellent videos on Youtube of each piece. [Read More...]
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My wife just pointed me to Google’s “Life in a Day” project, which happens this Saturday. Basically the idea is to videotape everything that happens to you this Saturday, July 24, and submit it for possible inclusion in a film which will debut at Sundance next year.
I think we’re gonna do it; [...]
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Apparently in Billings, the sight of a tornado just doesn’t faze people much. Check out all these drive-by dingdongs casually cruising past right next to the Metra as its roof flies in circles overhead.
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Filmmaker (and Missoula native) David Lynch recently featured Missoula chess champ Greg “the Octopus” Nowak on his Interview Project; check it out, here.
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I’ve been away from the office for a week, just getting back in the flow now. Thought I’d share this 60 Minutes segment about Gustavo Dudamel and his quest to transform the musical culture of America. This guy inspires me like few others. Enjoy. Watch CBS News Videos Online
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Following up, in a way, on yesterday’s post about the relevance of Beethoven, I thought I’d share a classic clip. Sid Caesar was a master of physical comedy. Beethoven was a master of music. Together, they make a pretty hilarious and brilliant video that pretty aptly brings this great old work of classical [...]
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