Facilitated Systems

Bill Harris from Making Sense With Facilitated Systems linked to me in a recent post regarding the Visual Acoustics tool I recently blogged about. Thanks, Bill!

Cellomania blog

Guanaco recently linked to me in a post on Cellomania. I had not discovered this blog before, but it is really an excellent read. The author lives in Alaska and recently started learning to play the cello. This blog documents the experience of learning to play this...

Ureli Corelli Hill

Check out this photo of the founder of the New York Philharmonic. Ureli Corelli Hill founded the orchestra in 1842 as the Philharmonic Society. This was the third Philharmonic on American soil since 1799, and this ensemble (later renamed the New York Philharmonic)...

Jonathan Boen’s Horn Concerto Commission

Drew McManus wrote a recent post about a pair of articles he edited for Jonathan Boen, Principal Horn for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. The concerto was commissioned from Jan Bach, and the articles (available on Polyphonic.org) chronicle Jonathan’s experiences...

ParkWhiz – the freelancer’s new best friend

A blog post from Somewhat Frank alerted me to this cool new service by a Chicago-based startup. Currently available only in Chicago (yay) and Philadelphia, ParkWhiz is essentially Google for parking spots in Chicago. Type where you want to look for parking and it will...