There is a really interesting Flash-based program by Visual Acoustics that is worth checking out. A choice of bass, guitar, piano, violin, flute, guitar, tenor sax, strings, or harp is available for experimentation. Pick an instrument and some parameters, then move...
Nina from Violinmasterclass.com recently sent me a link to this video by a violinist and cellist from the Great Wall International Music Academy. Check out greatwallacademy.org for audition and scholarship information for this academy. When you go to their homepage...
A couple of years ago a very funny thing happened at the Lyric Opera of Chicago involving orchestra musicians, administrators, and wacky street musician hustlers. I did not witness any of this, but I have heard the same tale from several Lyric musicians, so I hope...
Here is a great photo I recently found poking around on Flickr. It is a shot of Frank Gehry’s Pritzker Pavillion of Millennium Park in Chicago. I can’t tell which ensemble is performing in this shot.
