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El Sistema Comes to the U.S.
My mother, who lives in Los Angeles, has been telling me about the new, young conductor of the LA Philharmonic and his involvement in music education for disadvantaged kids but it didn’t really sink in until I watched some YouTube videos (see below) of performances by the youth symphony that he directs in his native [...]
Posted in Music and the Arts Also tagged Gustavo Dudame, Jose Antonio Abreu, music, sistema 6 Comments
Hard Times Come Again No More
This Thanksgiving day feels a bit melancholy to me. We’re in a time of radical change and the stresses and strains are being felt all over. This song, by Stephen Foster, is from hard times of another era (the great depression of 1850), yet speaks eloquently of bringing empathy to people of all circumstances. That [...]
Better Blog Editing with ScribeFire
WordPress is a great publishing platform but I find its editor to be rather cramped and not very conducive to actually writing. The editing window is only 10 lines high by default and there are lots of other panels, checkboxes and drop-down menus competing for your attention while you write. I wanted an editor that [...]
Revival
Sunday mornings at Strawberry Music Festival involves a lot of walking. First thing after crawling out of my sleeping bag is to hoof it down to Music Meadow to do the “Strawberry Stroll”, during which you stand in line with a couple of hundred fellow Strawberians, waiting to lay out blankets, tarps and chairs for [...]
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings: American Originals