To practice or not to practice on the day of a not-so-ideal performance? © OlliFoolish - Fotolia.com Here's the situation I faced when I woke up this morning: I have a performance this evening, a recital of ...

Ever wonder as a musician if/how much/how should you practice on the day of a performance, especially if you don't feel entirely comfortable with the music?

Here's a post I wrote about some of my thoughts as a piano collaborator.

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10 Opportunities for Composers Under 18 — Alternative Classical Here is a selection of schemes and competitions available to aspiring composers aged 18 and under.

Free opportunities for teenage composers - pass the link on to any music teachers you know!

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Richmond Symphony Names Joe Jaxson as Composer in Residence - Symphony In Tuesday’s (4/21) Opera Wire, David Salazar writes, “The Richmond Symphony has announced the appointment of composer Joe Jaxson as its next Composer-in-Residence. During his residency, Jaxson, who will succeed Damien Geter, will compose a new work for the Symphony’s 2026–2027 season, inspired by the Symphony Series finale featuring ‘Carmina Burana.’ He will also contribute... Read more »

New from Symphony: Richmond Symphony Names Joe Jaxson as Composer in Residence

Delays in U.S. Visa Process Affect Orchestras, Musicians, Performing Arts - Symphony In Tuesday’s (4/21) Violin Channel, an unsigned article reports, “In 2025, new rules from the U.S. State Department changed the way visa applicants could file their documents. … The performing arts sector has since been heavily impacted, with touring artists having to cancel or reschedule shows due to extended wait times for visas of up... Read more »

New from Symphony: Delays in U.S. Visa Process Affect Orchestras, Musicians, Performing Arts

A new opera based on Lorca’s Bodas de sangre will premiere at Teatro Real de Madrid in 2027.
Manuel Busto’s work headlines a season that also includes Netrebko, Yoncheva, and the first visit of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/teatro-real-...

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Cream gravy

I tried that with a TCP/IP handbook and it didn't work.

Girl, though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed . . .

You can make crackers out of cottage cheese.
1 spoonful cottage cheese on a piece of parchment (it will spread a lot)
Your favorite seasoning
Microwave on full power until golden brown spots appear and cracker seems dry
Wait a little to cool and peel off parchment paper
Crispy, crunchy!

Those are genius for my April Fools Day party! (I was doing something similar with slices of vanilla ice cream and an apricot half.)

The number of times I said exactly this in my 25 years in the Minnesota Orchestra was a very, very high number. I once produced an exhaustively researched chart showing how many concerts had been slashed out of the schedule since 2001. No one gave a shit. The VP of Marketing said I'd made it up.

I'm hoping fully funded includes home repairs.

Drink up my cases of wine. Get to know my neighbors. Finish cataloguing my books and scores. Fix up my house. Hang all the artwork.

Dinsdale!

i'm sorry that i've re-posted this a couple times but i'm gettin' a lil anxious 😬

plz feel free to message me for more info & plz feel free to share this post!!

Ergänze auch um beklaute Frauen in der Musik: So wurde die mit "F. Mendelssohn" überschriebene wunderbare "Ostersonate" sehr lange Felix Mendelssohn zugeschrieben. Weil sie so genial ist, hätte sie nur von ihm sein können. Stammte aber von seiner Schwester Fanny 💡
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Accessible Lute Music - Website
"Here you will find more than 17,000 settings of lute pieces (70,000 files) in French tablature in the fronimo (ft3) format, from Francesco Tribioli."...

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Holy scrap.

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1/ Amanda Juliet Holden (née Warren; 19 January 1948 – 7 September 2021) was a British pianist, librettist, translator and editor of musical encyclopedias. #WomanToday

There's more surface area in the cut bit. (The hypotenuse and all that.)

Capture d'écran de Noise Contemplator.

Chers toustes, chers personne : je vous informe que je sors bientôt un truc complètement pété du bulbe.
Il s'agit d'un instrument utilisant une synthèse basée sur le bruit filtré et les porteuses.
C'est barjo, ça fait des trucs.
Ça s'appelle Noise Contemplator.

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Tomorrow! On Saturday I'll be performing my "Let them Soar!" recital and story recital in Floyd, VA at the Floyd Center for the Arts.

Please consider joining us! And if you can stick around afterwards, consider joining us for dinner...somewhere in Floyd, TBD.

Poole vs. El Chico. It was on the exam.

hello bluesky friends! does anyone know of any couches i could crash on in London ca. early/mid June?

i'm traveling to the UK for a conference but hoping to hang around afterwards to explore. i'm very quiet & tidy 🤠

Introducing the Alphorn YouTube video by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment -
Introducing the Alphorn

youtu.be/V8PhWF51HFM

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Rethinking the size of my next house.

News: English National Opera appoints Helen Shute as new Chief Executive Officer
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