Archive: Music category
Welcome to 2009. As has become a tradition (see 2006, 2007, and 2008), here's a short recap of 2008 along with how I did on my resolutions, followed by my 2009 resolutions.
In 2008, I wrote 368 posts on this blog (plus another dozen or two on ...
I'm a player. A hymn-player, actually, specifically on the pianoforte. (Yes, yes, it was a lame opening, I know. :)) It's been going on for the last ten-ish years, starting in seminary and running like a musical thread throughout my mission (every week in sacrament meeting, and ...
I know it's a little early for New Year's resolutions, but I've already decided on one of them: in January I'm going to go classical. I'm only going to listen to classical music, and I'm leaning towards only reading books written before 1900 as well.
Why? Just because. :) ...
I'm proud to announce that the first issue of my new magazine, Mormon Artist is now available!
I've been working on this for the last two months, though a lot of the work got done today (I've been working on it ...
This'll be brief because I need to get to bed. I just got back from the Shakespearean Festival, saw Taming of the Shrew last night and Cyrano de Bergerac this afternoon. Shrew was okay but rather bawdy. Cyrano, on the other hand, was absolutely awesome. I ...
I don't often join Facebook groups anymore (let alone invite people to them), but my friend Jon's group I Deradioed a Girl: Get Katy Perry Off the Air is an exception. The song promotes infidelity and a lack of accountability, not to mention its flirtations with homosexuality. ...
I stopped by my parents' home for an hour tonight and played the piano, and while I was playing through some of the David Lanz music I grew up with, I realized that my fingers still remembered a ton of the music -- and some of these were pieces I ...
Two thoughts on art from Madeleine L'Engle in her book Walking on Water:
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older. But they start off without self-consciousness as they paint their ...
Being able to check books out for six months has had an unexpected side effect: instead of reading books, I now hoard them.
It's not like I've stopped reading entirely -- I'm in the middle of Shannon Hale's Book of a Thousand Days right now (and really like it) -- but ...
From Ars Technica, rumor has it that Apple may soon be letting consumers download unlimited songs from iTunes with the purchase of an iPod or iPhone:
A report by the Financial Times (registration required) cites unnamed executives who say that Apple is in talks with record labels to offer access ...
