Sunday, August 21, 2016

Sokol Fanfare*

Welcome to my readers in Thailand and in Saudi Arabia! Please stay a while, and read some of the other posts. Feel free to comment, good, bad or indifferent.

I've decided I'm going to post some musical things this year, most notably program notes for all the orchestra concerts in which I perform.

October 22, 2016
8pm
William Tennent HS, Warminster PA

Williams: Liberty Fanfare
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Shostakovich: Festive Overture, op. 96
Faure: Masques et Bergamasques
Other selections TBA

The Warminster Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Lovecchio, Music Director and Conductor
with
The US Army Herald Trumpets, Washington DC

More to come...

Monday, August 15, 2016

Day by Day*

So I interviewed with the University of Virginia and with the Free Library of Philadelphia in the last week. I have to say I like my chances better with the latter than the former. Between the heat and the monumental frustration I've had, I just have to take it one day at a time. Only way to survive.

*--Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak, Godspell, 1971.

PS: How would you feel if I posted a link to the song title at the top of each post? Like this one:
Day By Day
PPS: Welcome to my reader in Croatia! 48 countries heard from.  Hope you enjoy the posts. Be sure to make some comments for yourself and your countrymen!

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Arirang*

Welcome to my readers in South Korea! Forty-six countries in all have passed through this blog.  Once again, you're always welcome to converse, argue, agree, all in a spirit of scholarly pursuits.

*Traditional Korean folk song, used in John Barnes Chance's Variations on a Korean Folk Song for wind ensemble, 1967.