January 31, 2016 was my first time attending a Seattle Symphony concert this season. It was also my first time attending their annual Celebrate Asia concert, which is now in its eighth year. After traveling over the past few months and attending concerts by the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis, and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in San Francisco, I was glad …
This list was made by going to Google, searching the composer’s last name, and seeing which work by that composer came up as the first search result. In some cases, I have had to search by the composer’s first and last name. Some composers have been omitted because the search suggestions were inconclusive. Some of the entries may surprise you!
Perfect pitch is one of those coveted abilities that exists in less than 1 in 10,000 people. In short, it is the ability to identify isolated pitches without a reference note. It is distinguished from relative pitch, where a listener needs to hear a note first to identify other notes. Even then, the beginning musician often struggles with relative pitch, …
I’ll be performing in this! Not on stage with the dancers, but in the pit orchestra 🙂 This post was originally published on the Seattle Times website. The article was written by Michael Upchurch on January 20, 2013. You can find the original post here. In Paris, it started a riot. In London, where it played a week or two …
A long time ago, I covered MuseScore, an application that can typeset your music as well as play it back. And now, for something completely similar… Originally developed as a game to train people how to play piano, Synthesia is equally adept at playing back your music. Instead of a bunch of notes on five-line staves, Synthesia uses a Guitar-Hero-esque …