I hadn’t heard of the piano puzzler before. Listen to the piece. It’s in the style of a composer you are supposed to name (easy part, at least in this one), but it’s a song that has been put into that style and you are supposed to name the tune. Since I didn’t know what I was supposed to do I didn’t know I was supposed to be hearing a song. But I’m not sure I would have been able to name it even if I was given the instructions. After the piece is played you’ll hear the contestant, the pianist, and the radio host (?) and you’ll get the answer when the work is replayed a bit with the emphasis on the song.
(Side note: our percussionist/personnel manager has a daughter in the chorus.)
… and now I must step away from the computer. I’m experiencing a bit of vertigo, which is something totally new to me. It makes reading somewhat unpleasant. I’m hoping I’ll be better by the time I have to dry my hair (right now I can’t manage to stand to do that) and teach a couple of students!
This appears to be a legit video, as it’s up at Opera San José’s site. Nice!
Baroque classical music in the reading room can help improve radiologists work lives, potentially improving diagnostic efficiency and accuracy, according to a study performed by researchers at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD, Harbor Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia, PA.
I think the “classical” could be left off above, you know? And of course I always hate calling all the music I do “classical” since to me that is about the classical era. But what to do? Can’t really figure out what else to call the stuff. So oh well.
I read the above here. Maybe it doesn’t bug other folks like it bugs me. I’m easily bugged.
“.. a violin, can sound 50 diff ways: pizzicato, bowed, ponticello, harmonics & tremolos..an oboe:1 way: like an oboe.” John Corigliano
Carmen was really pretty; the orchestra did a great job with the music but didn’t overwhelm the singers’ voices. The singers were well-cast and looked their parts – that is, no 300+ lb. singer pretending to be a starving gypsy or something like that! The sets were rather plain, just a couple of tall columns or rough rock formations, and the costumes weren’t too exciting, but they matched the story.
(Yes, this is about OSJ’s Carmen.)
