Allen H Simon

Ariel Rubinstein gives some entertaining advice for grad students in econ which might apply to music as well: Do not attend too many seminars in your own field. Otherwise you may simply end up adding a comment to the existing literature, which is mostly made up of comments on previous comments which were themselves only […]

Part of a (possibly fictional) rehearsal attended by a gig musician preparing a one-shot gig with Smokey Robinson (the “he” referenced in the first paragraph is Smokey’s music director):   He walked into the room with his ego draped around him like a large winter coat. He was truly impressed with himself, and he had […]

Love the variety of percussion instruments used here (what’s the difference between the red mushroom and the green one?) and the, um, subtle facial expressions. Any of you ever used a Christmas present as a percussion instrument?      Link for the embedded-impaired: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ZwnmJgC-g

  ACDA has been encouraging the ChoralNet development team to make its Communities more useful for both internal ACDA uses and general ChoralNet uses. Accordingly, ChoralNet is waking up this morning with expanded Community features.   Right away you'll notice a new appearance for the communities, with an internal navigation bar, eliminating the need for sidebar […]

With Michael Stipe of REM and producer Brian Eno. I notice Colbert is pretty closely glued to the teleprompter, though:     h/t The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   h/t A Cappella News

Earlier I posted a singer's reaction, posted on her blog, to a conductor's audition. Now another conductor has auditioned, and here is her reflection. (Each conductor rehearsed and performed with the group.)   [conductor] was providing positive reinforcement throughout the entire performance and was giving off this tuned-into-the-music but zoned-out-of-reality kind of vibe. That is […]