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Archive | Band and Orchestra
Bridge Over Troubled Water: Music and Peacebuilding
Guest blogger Ali Mabardi of Critical Peace examines the relationship between music and peacebuilding.
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Enter to win a rare, limited-edition Fender baseball. Only about a thousand of these were made, and were used as a Fender promotional product about six years ago.
Forgotten Violins Tell Stories of Holocaust Horror
Every musical instrument has a story to tell; stories that don’t require a note to be played. These stories may be happy or sad, but none more horrifying than the stories violins played by Jewish Holocaust victims would have for us.
A man in Tel Aviv, Amnon Weinstein, and his son have spent the last 15 years tracking down such instruments. They are now restoring the violins, hoping they will help tell the story of those who survived, and those who were not so lucky.
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Sowing the Seeds of Music: Podcast Interview with TakeLessons CEO Steven Cox
In this podcast episode, I speak with Steven Cox, CEO and Founder of TakeLessons, about the state of music education, the strict guidelines TakeLessons private instructor applicants are judged on, and even the role Guitar Hero and American Idol have had on music lesson enrollment.
Rock Prophecies: Podcast Interview with Rock Photographer Robert Knight
If you’ve ever been jealous of a friend who saw The Rolling Stones or Jimi Hendrix back in the day, Robert Knight will make you green with envy. For over forty years, Knight has been what Rock Prophecies producer Tim Kaiser calls “the Forrest Gump of rock ‘n roll. He just had this knack for being right in the middle of history in the making.”
TED Talks: David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve
I just watched this fascinating TED video, featuring David Byrne, about the extent the sound of a building (or other environment) influences the style of music people write.
TED Talks: Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life
You might call me a wuss, but I really like Natalie Merchant. Even if you’re not into her, you have to admit that she’s a very talented artist. In her newest project, Leave Your Sleep, Merchant takes her lyrics from near-forgotten 19th-century poetry.
TED Talks: Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity
This TED video features Robert Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic. He talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician — and what he learned. You may be familiar with the musician, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, who was played by Jamie Foxx in the recent film The Soloist. Called back onstage [...]