As the Christmas/New Years holiday week approaches, Chuck and I have finished a furious round of concerts. The New Horizons Band where Chuck plays had three concerts of Christmas music – one in the midst of the big snowstorm that hit southeast Michigan on the 11th. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Detroit
Leonard Slatkin and the Met
Leonard Slatkin
For the past week, I’m hearing from a lot of people about Leonard Slatkin “bombing out” at the Metropolitan Opera. Slatkin withdrew from the Met after only one performance of La Traviata. According to his blog, it was a miserable experience from the start.
If you’ve missed this moment of high drama in the classical music world, here are a couple of places to get caught up. Continue reading
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Band Festival Announced in Southeast Michigan
The Motor City Brass Band distributed a news release today about an upcoming Festival of Bands. This event does two things I think are important. It helps facilitate communication and coordination between different organizations, and it pulls the Detroit Symphony into a leadership role with community and amateur music groups.
Here are the details: Continue reading
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Passions Know No Boundaries …
This week, I learned that even professional musicians may have a little “midlife musician” in them. Continue reading
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Learning from the Pros
Jazz Pianist Hank Jones will play and talk in the Jazz Tent
If you’ve ever had the chance to sit in on a master class, you can learn quite a lot to improve your own playing. (Once you get past the point of being glad YOU aren’t the person whose playing is being critiqued in public!!) Continue reading
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Midlife Musicians 