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Sounds & Fury: A Sad If Sobering Bit Of Reading For The New Year
Something happened in 2007, something ended. Old gods stumbled and fell. New ones sprang up. But they sprang up in their thousands. That’s the point these days.
(tags: sounds fury classical music blog blogs)

happy new year…can my neighbors stop shooting off fireworks [...]

Blogroll Update, Winter ‘07-’08
Good list of music blogs from The Concert.
(tags: classical music blog)

Reader’s Digest: Loud Asia!
Very interesting post from PY about how the noise level in many Asian cities is well above a range considered safe by the World Health Organization.
(tags: PY classical music bass blog)

Ionarts: Top 10 Live Performances
Top ten live performances in D.C. from 2007.
(tags: ion arts classical music blog)

5 Good Musician New Year’s Resolutions
Some good advice for practicing from b5media blogger Arjun Muralidharan.
(tags: music practicing good musician Arjun Muralidharan)

CBC 53: Peter Seymour interview and music from Project
This week we feature the first half of an interview with [...]

My extensive research into the area of influential and prolific jazz composers who happen to be bass players has been something of a bust. Much as I wanted to shill for my fellow low note creators, the [...]

daily observations » odds and ends
Some good links for the week from Charles Noble (including one of mine from Arts Addict!).
(tags: charles noble viola classical music blog)

PostClassic: Cats
Cats from bloggers…
(tags: cats bloggers artsjournal)

PostClassic: more cats
This cat also like wine and smokes, apparently!
(tags: cats artsjournal bloggers)

Child Prodigies Scare The Hell Out of Me
Fun post from The [...]

Chuck Norris Facts
One of my all-time favorite web sites!
(tags: Chuck Norris facts humor)

Jazz Bassist/Composers
Bill Harrison writes a blog post about Ben Allison, Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, and Dave Holland–four of the best jazz bassists of all time.
(tags: bill harrison jazz underneath double bass blog)

Michael Hovnanain records with Gunnelpumpers
Michael writes: “A six-hour recording session with that [...]

The Powers That Be Have Been Informed - Our Young People Continue to Wait for a 21st C. Education Worthy of Their Attention
Great post from one of the pioneers in educational podcasting.
(tags: mark gura education podcast teachers)

Part II: Music Major/Career Thoughts - What I decided I didn’t want to do…
Musician and blogger Kayla ruminates on [...]

I’m in the process of writing an extended article about WordPress the blog management system that I started using predominantly.  It makes blogging much easier and is helping to keep me from being chained to the computer, allowing me to do what I really like: write!
There are three cool things that WordPress does to make [...]

Merry Christmas - Honolulu update
Patty from oboeinsight blogs about the Honolulu Symphony missing their payroll. The musicians there seem to be taking it all in stride, however.
(tags: honolulu symphony oboeinsight oboe classical music blog)

Atonality’s Anniversary
From Musical Perceptions: “Alex Ross has declared today Atonality Day. I didn’t do anything special to celebrate, beyond listening [...]

MusTech.net, MUSicTECHnology.net. The Best Source for Music, Education, and Technology!
One of my favorite blogs–definitely the #1 destination for tech-savvy educators.
(tags: blogs education MIDI music news podcasting RSS tech Technology)

Emerson Plays Sheng
The second of the Emerson String Quartet’s concerts for the Smithsonian Resident Associates, at the National Museum of Natural History, was similarly programmed as its [...]