A Snowy Night at the Kiev Opera House

A Snowy Night at the Kiev Opera House, originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs. A note from the photographer: I made it to Kiev and it is perhaps the slipperiest city in the world. It didn’t say that in the brochure.

Twitter Updates for 2007-12-18

Hanging with the cats and doing some website work. # Wrapping up a little evening blogging and playing some late night Wii. # Reading some of my news feeds and looking forward to a relaxing day–a little teaching, a little blogging, etc. # Heading out for a run....

links for 2007-12-19

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...

Call for comments at the Virtual Master Class

We’ve put out some new tracks from bassists looking for some constructive criticism.  If you’ve got a moment, check out the Virtual Master Class index and leave a comment or two on some of the tracks there.  The bassists submitting the tracks would...

John Grillo on the resonating pitch of black holes

ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo has just put out a very interesting post about the discovery a few years ago that a Bb 52 octaves lower than the piano was emanating from the Perseus cluster of galaxies. John writes: Throughout history, music and astronomy...