March 11, 2009
The new iPod Shuffle's capacity has been doubled to 4GB, and now the minuscule music player doesn't have a control wheel. But how will you ever reign over your music? Simple -- with controls on the earbud cord. WHEE! The new design keeps the clip and adds VoiceOver -- a new feature that gets around ...
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February 18, 2009
We've transcribed Jose Antonio Abreu's TED Prize wish to use music to transform kids' lives and posted the full text below the fold. Here's a snippet: The idea is that the families join with pride and joy in the activities of the orchestras and the choirs their children belong to. The huge spiritual...
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February 06, 2009
Twitter has been (rightfully, in many cases) maligned as a distraction, but at times the “microblog” can keep us connected in smaller bits of time, not larger. People read while something is rendering, when they feel a bit lonely or distracted to begin with (a bit like taking work to a v...
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January 19, 2009
January 02, 2009
VIA Washingto Post A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went through the station, most of them o...
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December 30, 2008
Does anyone know of a good wrist brace for a violinist? I am a classically trained violinist (for 21 years, so no pancake wrist), who plays in a rock band, and putters around on guitar and piano. But without fail, after playing, even after just holding my violin (vertically by the neck), my left wri...
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December 05, 2008
Director : Peter Segal Release Date : 20 June 2008 (USA) Genre : Action, Comedy, Thriller Cast : Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart, Anne Hathaway as Agent 99, Dwayne Johnson as Agent 23, Alan Arkin as The Chief, Terence Stamp as Siegfried, Terry Crews as Agent 91, David Koechner as Larabee, James Caan a...
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July 07, 2008
What music written after 1830 is playable by an amateur violinist? I've played violin for about 11 years, most of them in a school orchestra. I took private lessons as well. Once I got to college (as a computer sci major, not music), orchestra became more of a loathsome chore than the recreational f...
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June 07, 2008
I applied for a job a few weeks ago. I was interviewed twice for this position because they wanted to make sure I had all these specific high skills and abilities to do the job. I passed apparently, but only after they called to tell me they had picked the other person, then rang back a week later a...
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May 02, 2008
Alexander "Eck" Robertson (1886 - 1975) was one hell of a fine fiddler, friend. He made, in 1922, what many country music historians consider the first commercial recording of country music. And now some kind soul has made ol' Eck a MySpace page where you can get a taste (five tastes, actu...
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