Cecilia @ De Slegte Hasselt

I wish I had my birthday more than once a year, so I could get crazy in book shops more often. Like today, I bought:
Hear, listen, play part 2 for clarinet (sheet music)
Thad Carhart: The piano shop (book)
Olivier Pourriol: Mephisto Valse (book)
Margriet de Moor: Kreutzersonate & The Virtuoso (book)
Roberta Guaspari en Larkin Warren: Music of [...]

Cecilia @ PBL

This time I brought home:
Andromeda Romano: The Spanish bow (book)
Michael Nyman: After Extra Time (cd)
Brass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: works of Willem van Otterloo, Nick Woud, Giovanni Gebriele, Hans Werner Henze, William Schmidt and Derek Bourgeois (cd)
Christian Lindberg: The winter trombone, works of Antonio Vivalde, Darius Milhaud, Lars-Erik Larsson, Georg Philipp Telemann and Roland [...]

The story and the music

How important is it that there’s a story behind the music? I personally think that the music of performers who have a certain image in their mind while playing, has a greater value than the music of those who just play the notes (even if they do play musical lines and dynamics).
Yesterday  a class mate [...]

That’s how it works

One could say there are five sorts of people: men, woman, musicians, tenors and percussionists. Lets take a closer look.
1. Men
Apparently the most normal creatures on earth. Nothing more to add.
2. Woman
People say woman can easily do two things at a time, for example cooking and talking on the phone. Did you try that yet? [...]

Surprise

To he who crossed a bus and a passenger car this afternoon with excessive speed:
Why would you cross a bus that’s driving exactly the maximum speed? Because it’s a bus? Or were you trying to get rid of your mother-in-law on the back seat? Whatever, you must have been surprised when you found me already [...]

Sticky tunes

The last piece we sang at choir rehearsal today was this:

I first sang ‘Im Feuerstrom der Reben’ from ‘Die Fledermaus’ in 2003 (the choir part of course). Since then the tune has been stuck in my head every time I heard it. Grrr. Not that I don’t like the music, it’s [...]

Ah-tonality

At the Yahoo Answers website I read the following question:
Do you like atonal music? If so, why?
In my opinion this question is completely irrelevant. Atonality is not something you enjoy, like a nice warm bath. You don’t put on Schoenberg’s music while cleaning, eating dinner, reading or studying (except when you are about to read [...]

Brass sensation

From today on I’m also a fan of Christian Lindberg. That is, of his trombone playing, as wel as his compositions. Why? I think the following video’s speak for themselves.

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Déjà entendu

The piano concerto (Michael Nyman)
And yes, I do know the theme, but I don’t know why, because no, I haven’t seen the movie ‘The piano’.

Too bad the fourth part, ‘The release’, isn’t on YouTube.

Slidin’ along

How do you recognize a trombone player’s child in the playground?
He doesn’t know how to use the slide, and he can’t swing.
Well, the inventor of that joke obviously doesn’t know these guys yet. New Trombone Collective, a group of enthousiastic Dutch trombone players who one day decided it would be fun to play something together [...]