The following describes in part why I’m fascinated by performance practice.
For me, one of the most pleasurably unearthly sensations is that of hearing or witnessing something that one would never have imagined to have survived—something, in a sense, one has no business hearing. This is one of the real attractions of the study of historical [...]
Archive for February, 2007
performance practice
Posted in music on February 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
yes virginia, there’s school after college
Posted in teaching on February 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I had quite an amusing exchange in the hallway with one of my students after teaching my older beginner piano class today.
Cute piano student: “Miss A, are you in college?”
Me: “No, I’m in graduate school. It’s what you go to after college.”
Student (with horrified expression): “There’s school after college??”
One of the woodwind professors passing by [...]
guilt-free!
Posted in life, music on February 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes getting a degree in music performance takes all the fun out of playing. This was definitely true in my case. The tendonitis issue was the “real” reason for switching my degree to musicology, but it ended up being a sort of blessing in disguise. I don’t enjoy classical performance–in fact, I dread it. Make [...]
foreign language fun
Posted in culture on February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gotta love example sentences in language books. This one is from German Quickly: A Grammar For Reading German by April Wilson–”Ein vorwitziges Schäflein frißt der Wolf.” (“The wolf eats an impertinent little sheep.”)
Impertinent little sheep…..impertinent little sheep…I can’t stop laughing about this one. Impertinent little sheep….
This is what happens to you when your native language [...]
