Dawson grew up in Detroit surrounded by a musical family. When her father put her on piano at age 7, she had already been playing harp for two years thanks to instruction from her godsister, the late jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby. In high school, she played clarinet in the school band,...
Cuz for him, you know, success in life was a big salary. So that was, his thought. But when I got to college, I just loved playing music, I loved working with the people and so I ended up getting a degree, as an undergraduate in music education. Although I love to play, I ...
“Strawbs instinctively play to the songs – the songs are the lifeblood of the band,” Dave Cousins toldIt’s Psychedelic Baby. “We do not set out to record virtuoso performances over complicated chord sequences, which seems to be the essence of some prog-rock bands.” That methodology m...
“Strawbs instinctively play to the songs – the songs are the lifeblood of the band,” Dave Cousins toldIt’s Psychedelic Baby. “We do not set out to record virtuoso performances over complicated chord sequences, which seems to be the essence of some prog-rock bands.” That methodology m...
When you blow into a clarinet, a thin reed begins to vibrate. The vibrating reed first pushes against air molecules (the medium), then pulls away. This results in an area where all of the air molecules are pressed together and, right beside it, an area where air molecules are spread ...
which focuses on the lead up to a serious crime committed by two young men, one white and one black, the play feels as generic as John Lee Beatty’s set design of a neighborhood bar. From the vinyl upholstery on the seats to the sports memorabilia on the walls, this could...
To appeal to a wider audience, Welk featured current songs as well as big band standards. Welk had a cast of performers who were on the show every week. Myron Floren played the accordion, Dick Kesner played the violin, Buddy Merrill was on guitar, and Pete Fountain took up the clarinet...
s positive focus is that I get to go see my son do a concert. He’s been taking a saxophone and then he switched over recently to clarinet and he’s at an end-of-year concert that’s going to be outside. So it’s going to be nice...
I've been struggling with this for like years because especially when you have an instrument that has long tones, like for instance, a sustained snare drum roll or a long clarinet tone, Zoom will pick it up as unwanted background noise. And so you'll hear the beginning of it and th...
(Music Plays, Title how i met your motherappears)Ted Narrator: It was way back in 2005. I was twenty-seven just starting to make it as an architect and living in New York with my friend Marshall, my best friend from college. My life was good and then Uncle Marshall went and screwed...