Archive for June, 2008

translations of classical music titles; part 1

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

sometimes sitting through a concert is a test of patience. there you sit, idle, listening, the stage filled with passion and you, there, aisle 17 seat 4, empty stomach and program.
these are translations of the italian, german, latin, etc.. titles of classical works.
PART 1
BEETHOVEN sonata in c minor, op 111
Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed [...]

comments

Friday, June 6th, 2008

So today I recieved an e-mail informing me that the “comments” portion of the website does not work. a concerned reader had an opinion to voice and the site did not allow him to sing. here is the e-mail:
Fritz,
Why am I not able to comment on your entries, and why have you allowed some pianist [...]

pope, the club owner; monk, the jazz man

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

a little bit of history for you (as told to me by Lawrence Hopgood - pianist for Kurt Elling)
so sometime around the year 800, Catholic monks began recording their chants in an early form of notation. they wrote music like they wrote latin: in learned manner. so some tone deaf and dumb monachus could sit [...]