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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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urbaniak
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Tonight at midnight on Adult Swim. Served up just the way you like it.
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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urbaniak
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A senior thesis idea for communications major Peter Vadala has turned into a campus-wide "Culture of Life" project that will soon evolve into "College Musical," a movie intended to spread the message of God's grace to secular audiences.
The project started out simply as a script that Vadala was writing for his thesis. When Vadala chose to actually create the movie, the project grew to include nearly 30 musicians, vocalists, actors and technical crew.
At first Vadala's script focused on abortion, but as he revised, he decided to focus on an anti-pornography message. Vadala said he can understand the issue, since he has met men who struggle with pornography. ( That Guy Isn't Me )
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
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classical_music
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At a time when there is so much violence in the world, it is heartening to see young people adding to our culture, and our leaders taking an interest.
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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Does anyone else here have this habit of collecting various variations of different compositions in different arrangements, key or instruments? I know that I have at least three versions of Greensleeves to a Ground, along with two Vaughn-Williams Greensleeves played by two different symphonies. I also found a Japanese version of the song with lyrics I don't understand. >_>
Recently, I've been collecting Haydn's Kaiser Quartet, and I currently have three different ones. So does anyone else look out for these things? :)
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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classical_music
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John Adams: Hell Mouth: Hocking a Hooey at the Concert:We’ve all been there. Maybe it’s in the simplest, most affecting andante of a Mozart concerto. Maybe it’s right before Debussy’s faun languishes into ecstasy while the delicate ping of the crotale shimmers in the soft summer air. Maybe it’s in the hushed last minutes of Mahler’s Ninth, when the music is just barely breathing, the composer’s faltering heart struggling to beat, his soul’s transmigration from this earthly life teetering on the brink. The musicians are in rapt concentration. The pianissimos are as intimate as a whisper. The concert hall is transfixed.
And then, suddenly from somewhere in the back: “WHOARGGGHHAAAARRRAAAAAACK!!!”
Some cretin in a suit and tie in Row Q with his mind on autopilot has just let rip with a super sized hacker that is the audible equivalent of tossing a bag full of garbage at the Mona Lisa.
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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classical_music
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Anyone know where I can locate on line scores of Mahler's Second and Third Symphonies? ChoralWiki only has partial piano reductions, and IMSLP only has the individual instrumental parts, not complete scores. As regards the Second, at least, this seems to be due to copyright issues.
And also the Tenth which does not even get listed by IMSLP.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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autumn_lull
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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violetonyx
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I feel like writing...mostly to procrastinate but also because I don't want to leave this journal neglected. It's been a wonderful virtual scrapbook of my life for almost seven years now.
So last night was Halloween and I didn't go out. I holed myself up in my room and worked on my grad school application. The problem I've been having is that the more I've explored my objectives with the museum studies concentration in mind, the less the two seem to fit. This disconnection has caused me to doubt my decision to pursue the Arts Management degree and to stall on making any progress. So I got back on the department's website and stumbled over the Community Arts concentration, and finally it clicked, an epiphany. Community Arts is exactly what I am trying to do. It takes Art out of the museum and uses it in interactive ways to directly impact communities. It includes Public Art and more. I overlooked it before in exactly the same way I had overlooked Arts Administration as a viable field because I thought it was just boring youth programs...but no...it IS more. It's site specific, interactive, ephemeral, and has the power to directly impact people's lives. It's art as healing, art as community building... and it's a field that's only been around for 40 years so there's room to take it further.
I've spent a few hours today trying to do more research and I stumbled upon one of the prominent writers in the field's blog, William Cleveland. In the second article he writes about a woman he knew named Eloise Smith. He writes, Eloise was a battler and inveterate seeker of truth and justice. One of her great quests was to insinuate the arts into community life as a force for healing and self expression. This is the same Eloise Smith that founded the gallery I worked for all through college. She was married to the first Provost of Cowell College. The first college at UCSC. The gallery was originally a ping pong room but Eloise felt the students needed culture so she turned it into a gallery. She was also very involved in the community arts and worked with Cleveland to develop art programs in prisons. A program which helped prisoner's to heal, lowering prisoners incident rates inside prisons, and causing them to commit fewer crimes when they got out.
I think this discovery about Eloise is a sign from the universe that I am on the right track. She died long before I made it to The Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, but my experience working there definitely influenced my decision to take this path. The way I found that job was somewhat fateful. I didn't even apply. Linda, the director called me because she saw my resumé in the system after I had applied at the Sesnon Gallery. The four years I worked there I never saw her do that again.
A couple of weeks ago my boss Bonnie told me that she suspected I was a healer. I think she may be right.
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A couple of years ago NPR ran a documentary about the history of the black community in the United States. One of its features was a recording made much in the spirit of the authentic performance practice movement, of music known to have been composed (if that is the right word for the products of a folk tradition) within the black community in New York before the Revolution. Does anyone know more about this? Particularly whether such a recording has ever been released commercially or is available anywhere on the internet?
Thanks for any help.
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urbaniak
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Tonight at midnight on Adult Swim. You'll be glad you did.
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autumn_lull
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autumn_lull
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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classical_music
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Hi! Does anyone here have an MP3 copy of an aria of (or based/derived from) Tennyson's "In Memoriam"? Honestly I haven't heard of one, but I'm SURE there has to be one somewhere. I'm putting up some kind of an LCD presentation for my uncle's first death anniversary next week and I can't think of a better background music. Thanks a lot!
ETA: OK I'M DESPERATE. ANY ARIA ABOUT DEATH WILL DO. SUGGESTIONS? (Google and Youtube have never been so useless to me.)
(x-posted)
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
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dravene
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I'm tired of competing with a man's memories for his affection.
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