Earlier this year I put up a post asking if ukeleles ever go on sale. But while I was visiting former Cameratan Adrian Rollett and his wife Kelly in Colorado Springs I found something which perhaps should never go on sale in the broadest sense, or indeed should ever have been made in the first place.
Yesterday The Pittsburgh Camerata and Renaissance & Baroque held jointly a benefit event. It was, if I'm counting correctly, the 14th annual event for the Camerata. (Renaissance & Baroque first joined with us last year.)
I just ran across the following article in the Pacific Standard about hoarders and what makes them tick. I was very relieved to discover I'm not a hoarder per se, because they have problems categorizing things. I love to categorize things. One of my favorite things to do is go to one of those stores which have specialized thingys to organize, say, your powdered miso soup packets.
If you have a benefit you would like to promote, feel free to leave a comment below. This post is about a couple of close friends of mine who are co-hosting a fundraising event this coming Sunday, The Pittsburgh Camerata and Renaissance & Baroque. (This is my blog, so the Camerata comes first : )
"Wait just a moment," you may be saying, "how can they be your friends? They are arts organizations!"
Enough is enough. How often to we have to see the so-called “Golden Rules for Ensemble Singing” before we conductors fight back? I for one am not going to take it anymore. Here are my responses:
The final singer in my series is none other than our very own planet, Mother Earth. Scientists have recently discovered that the earth hums. As noted in this article:
Today's post is one of the last in the Singing Planet series, as the actual Singing City concert which kicks off the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Music of the Spirit festival will be held this Saturday, April 20th.
The picture at left is from a famous series of prints called "Cries of London." You can find an interesting discussion of the artist who painted the original series, Francis Wheatley, here. I used to have a copy of this engraving (for all I know, quite an old copy,) but I don't remember what has become of it. I think I gave it to one of my children.
Earlier this year I put up a post asking if ukeleles ever go on sale. But while I was visiting former Cameratan Adrian Rollett and his wife Kelly in Colorado Springs I found something which perhaps should never go on sale in the broadest sense, or indeed should ever have been made in the first place. 
Yesterday The Pittsburgh Camerata and Renaissance & Baroque held jointly a benefit event. It was, if I'm counting correctly, the 14th annual event for the Camerata. (Renaissance & Baroque first joined with us last year.) 
I just ran across the following 
Today's post is one of the last in the Singing Planet series, as the actual Singing City concert which kicks off the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's Music of the Spirit festival will be held this Saturday, April 20th.
The picture at left is from a famous series of prints called "Cries of London." You can find an interesting discussion of the artist who painted the original series, Francis Wheatley, 
