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The Archives: Music
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2. Wired digits
I stopped by my parents’ home for an hour tonight and played the piano, and while I was playing through some of the David Lanz music I grew up with, …
Two thoughts on art from Madeleine L’Engle in her book Walking on Water:
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose …
Being able to check books out for six months has had an unexpected side effect: instead of reading books, I now hoard them.
It’s not like I’ve stopped reading entirely — …
From Ars Technica, rumor has it that Apple may soon be letting consumers download unlimited songs from iTunes with the purchase of an iPod or iPhone:
A report by the …
A few cool things I’ve come across lately:
1. Melodyne’s Direct Note Access, a short video demonstrating their new technology that lets you edit the individual notes of a chord …
7. iSolated
This morning while scrambling my eggs for breakfast and listening to Aida on my iPod, one of my roommates came into the kitchen and started cleaning some stuff off the …
8. Fa so la ti
Running a little late tonight, because I just barely finished writing the second play (Safe and Sound) and submitted it mere seconds ago. I’ll write more about that on …
As disciples of Christ, we talk a lot about enduring to the end and just how on earth (since heaven’s still a bit out of reach) we’re supposed to make …
10. Season for hymns
Earlier today I came across an interesting post on the Mormon Artists Group blog:
What will the hymnal of 2043 be like?
If the evolution of our hymnbook is any indicator, …
I used to compose music a lot back in 2000 and 2001. (Well, by “a lot” I mean more than I’m composing now. :)) But since then I’ve …
Out with the old…
Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year’s post and found that I …
13. Deep Christmas
Shirley posted yesterday on her not-so-favorite Christmas songs, songs like “White Christmas” and “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and such:
I guess I’ve kept it a secret. They just don’t …
14. The pied piper
So, today at church they asked me if I’d play the organ for the choir’s rendition of “What Child Is This?” at the ward Christmas program in two weeks. …
15. Little women
This morning I realized that most of my favorite musicals are adaptations of classic literature — Jane Eyre, Secret Garden, Les Mis, The Sound of Music, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wicked, …
When I was a kid (some fifteen years ago), I did the whole piano lesson thing. Even studied with a pretty darn good teacher (Irene Peery-Fox) for a couple …
17. A familiar tune
I always read the paper during lunch, and yesterday an ad caught my eye, one for a new musical called “Take the Mountain Down” that was playing this week in …
A long time ago one of my friends told me that the music to Jane Eyre (the musical) was amazing. I couldn’t find it anywhere — iTunes, the library, …
It’s past my bedtime (got back late from interviews), but I did want to blog today, so here’s some buckshot from the hip. I don’t think I’ve blogged about …
“For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth.” –Moses 3:5
In my creative work — …
It’s been a while since my last post about my job, so here’s an update on what’s been happening.
We finished going through all the books last week and started …
I wonder as I wander out under the sky,
How Jesus the Savior did come for to die,
For poor orn’ry people like you and like I,
I wonder as I wander, … …
Time for a quickie post. I’d gotten way behind on replying to comments, so my hour of blogging time has turned into an hour of comment-replying time. (Which …
24. Unsung melodies
If I were an animal, I think I would be a monkey.
Not because I like monkeys. But tonight as I was watching the BYU songwriters’ showcase, I realized that …
From the More Good Foundation blog I came across Liahona.net, a site from the Ensign Media Foundation, which is:
…a non-profit charity whose purpose is to provide wholesome and …
There’s a song by Michael McLean called “Light on a Distant Hill,” and it’s been giving me goosebumps every time I listen to it. I can’t really do …
27. One short of ten
1. I just took a humanities test in the testing lab downstairs. Shortly after I arrived, some guy came in and sat down in the row in front of …
“We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates,” wrote Joseph Smith, “in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.”
And yet music piracy is rampant among us. How …
In my mind, songs stretch out across my neural network and connect with the memories of whatever’s happening in my life at the time I’m listening to them. (In …
30. Do re mi
I’ve been listening to some songwriting podcasts lately, and so on my walk up to campus I came up with a couple of lines to a song I want to …
31. A thousand words
A couple of weeks ago I came across Meredith Farkas’s post on screencasting, and it’s been on the back burner of my mind ever since, particularly this line: “There …
32. Scatterplot
1. I went to the BYU Men’s and Women’s Chorus Concert on Friday, primarily because the last three songs that the Women’s Chorus sang were from Wicked (”Popular,” “For Good,” …
With Instant Handbrake I’m able to convert my DVDs to iPod (.mp4), so now I have To This End Was I Born, Mountain of the Lord, and Fan Chan …
Remember how I said I’d post about Elder Douglas L. Callister’s devotional address? The rebroadcast ended an hour ago (which is how long I’ve been working on this post …
35. Decomposing
Went over to the piano practice rooms in the HFAC early this morning and spent an hour composing. Towards the end of the hour I realized that what I’d …
While spending the day with my family on Independence Day, I seized the opportunity to play the piano. We have two pianos at home, actually: one an old upright …
Lately I’ve become rather enamoured of the idea of studying the masters. In my own art, I can tell that a lack of having studied other artists has stunted …
The midterms are over. Phew. But, in the nature of spring term, I have a 10-page research paper due Thursday. Someday it will be over, someday… :)
In …
Okay, it’s their tacky joke, not mine. :) (See http://lilypond.org/web/switch/) So I was checking out the LilyPond site again today (I’ve been in a typographical mood …
The Other Music section on LDS.org now has the soundtracks from the seminary videos available for download via MP3. Even better, you can download sheet music for many …
41. Catchdown
I’ve got a long list of 32 various topics to write about (in this blog alone, not to mention my other blogs), so I’m going to speed through it and …
42. Boiled frog
In our C.S. Lewis Society meeting this past week, the discussion turned to how God can make good out of any bad that happens, and how, conversely, Satan twists everything …
43. The kettle black
This morning in my Music 201 (History of Civilization) class, we talked a little bit about Plato’s Republic, which brought up the topic of censorship. (It’s one of the …
I’ve been trying Pandora out lately, and it’s pretty cool. But it’s all pop! ~sigh~ After a …
On my walk up to campus this morning, the fresh air reminded me of Jane Austen for some reason. I imagined myself in heaven, meeting Jane and telling her …
46. Around the clock
Going along with that last post, I’ve been thinking about rock music. Particularly the hard stuff. And I don’t like it. It’s too loud, too grating, too …
47. Sing, sing, sing
I don’t think I like jazz as much as I thought I did. Sure, some of it appeals to me (like “Sing, sing, sing”), but most of it just …
Yesterday in my religion class we sang a hymn (”Redeemer of Israel”) and it happened to be one of the six which I know the bass line for. It …
