Several random sources have led to today’s blog - news of several orchestras closing their doors, my favorite left-wing comedian/pundit hypocritically picking on the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), my friends being jerked around by arts-cutting administrators, and Dim Sum (Chinese dumplings). Yes, these doughy white dumplings helped tie everything together for me and had it not been for finishing a large dinner before writing this, I would be running to the local Chinese market to buy ingredients for my own dumplings.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Embracing the Dark Side...
(Technology and Music in the 21st century)
Posted on 11:06 AMby Michael Pearson with No comments
It has been a busy week (month?) around the Triton High School band room; this past Wednesday was our conference’s Large Group Music Festival. For those less familiar with the instrumental music realm; “Large Group” is typically the pinnacle point of an ensemble’s yearly performances. Several of my music colleagues and peers may disagree with this on the surface, but underneath it all, we know that this is the one chance many of us get to bring our ensembles into a competition ala football or baseball (excluding any broken bones). Following our competition, I found myself waking on Thursday swearing that it was truly Friday and the rest of the world had it wrong!
Unfortunately, majority still ruled and it was indeed a Thursday.
So today, Friday, looked to be a daunting task; that is, until a little technological fate chimed in…
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