Nice to see Dave Brubeck get a well-deserved honor yesterday…the legendary jazzman came to Washington DC to honored with the Ben Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy – a sort of “lifetime achievement” award for Americans going abroad…and he plays a moving Chopinesque piece, inspired by a long-ago trip to Poland..
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Bravo for Brubeck
Posted in Arts & Culture, Composers, Cultural Diplomacy, Jazz, Milestones, Musicians, Pianists, Politics, tagged Chopin, Condoleeza Rice, Dave Brubeck, Jazz on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Miscellaeneous Musings: the NY Phil, Howard Theatre, WYPR, No Depression, Pete Seeger…
Posted in Arts & Culture, Baltimore, Classical Music, Critics, Cuba, Cultural Diplomacy, Digital Media, Gaming, Music Media, Musicians, Politics, Pop Music, Print Media, Public Television, Talk Radio, Washington DC, orchestras, public radio, technology, tagged All Things Considered, Cuba, Digital Cafe, Howard Theatre, John Schaefer, Marc Steiner, Milwaukee Symphony, New York Philharmonic, NPR, PBS, Pete Seeger, Radio One, Video Games, WHYY, WYPR, Youth Radio on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Any resemblance to Mike “I Was Just Thinking….” Barnicle is purely coincidental….
Kind of amazing to hear the wall-to-wall media coverage of the New York Philharmonic’s trip to North Korea….startling and gratifying to hear snippets of the New World Symphony in the middle of network newscasts. Worth reading: Anne Midgette’s column in the WaPo on this [...]
Meanwhile, back in Cleveland
Posted in Politics, baseball, tagged Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Indians, mascots, racism on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe this is why the Tribe lost: What’s up with that ridiculous mascot? That’s what the Christian Science Monitor wanted to know last week.
So when you watch the Cleveland Indians on television this week, watch your kids as well. Ask yourself what the image of Chief [...]
Create WV
Posted in Creative Class, Politics, Print Media, West Virginia, tagged Colbert Report, Create WV, Creative Class, Rebecca Kimmons, Richard Florida, the Journal, West Virginia on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My local daily is a pretty dreadful excuse for a newspaper, but as the offspring of ink-stained wretches I am still compelled to read it – or at least skim it – every day. When I first moved to WV Dr. Wizard and I took to calling it the “Jumpsuit Journal,” as [...]
On the Road – PRPD, Digital Lincoln, and Cuban Jazz
Posted in Harpers Ferry, Jazz, Museums, Politics, music education, public radio, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Besame Mucho, Dakota Jazz Club, Great Night Out, Harpers Ferry, Lowell Pickett, Nachito Herrera, PRPD, Target, WBGO, Weather Report on October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PHILADELPHIA – All quiet on the blog front lately, thanks to a combination of travel, deadlines, and Harpers Ferry business. But I’ve been saving up a lot of thoughts to share about the PRPD Conference last week in Minneapolis (PRPD stands for Public Radio Program Directors, now the biggest confab in [...]
The Huckabee Band-wagon?
Posted in Politics, Presidential Candidates, Rock'n'Roll, music education, tagged arts education, Boston Globe, Daily Iowan, Maria von Trapp, Mike Huckabee, presidential politics, Rolling Stones, Washington Post on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Huh. Little did I realize that when I posted about Ark. gov Mike Huckabee actually putting music and arts education on his campaign agenda, that he was becoming the It Guy among Republican candidates. The Boston Globe editorialized enthusiastically the other day, saying “when the former Arkansas governor starts talking about [...]
Alberto Gonzalez, meet Peter Gabriel
Posted in Musicians, Politics, Rock'n'Roll, Song lyrics, tagged Alberto Gonzalez, Peter Gabriel on May 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Strange is your language and I have no decoder
Why don’t you make your intentions clear
With eyes to the sun and your mouth to the soda
Saying, “Tell me the truth, you got nothing to fear.”
Stop staring at me like a bird of prey
I’m all mixed up, I got nothing to say [...]
Slava!
Posted in Celebrities, Classical Music, Conductors, Musicians, Politics, Recordings, birthdays, tagged Carlo Maria Giulini, London Philharmonic, Mstislav Rostropovich, Performance Today, Ted Libbey on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Can’t forget to note that today is also the 80th birthday of Russian cellist & conductor Mstislav Rostropovich. Performance Today is doing a series of tributes all this week – today featuring a brief interview with Emerson quartet cellist David Finckel, along with a classic Slava performance (from 1964) of the finale of [...]
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