I was listening to a collection of Fred Astaire songs for the first time, enjoying the clever lyrics, syncopated rhythms, tapping that was clearly the gent doing something physicality virtuosic - AND THEN THEY BROUGHT IN THE OOMPAH BAND. Go, tubas ( Read more... )

As it happens, I own a violin - with a quite nice tone for a student model, they tell me - and I also own a New Year's resolution to learn how to play it properly.

I am still at that stage of the learning process where I saw away at the open strings and go through the initiation of that Mystery known as bowing technique. (Check out this cool ( Read more... )

Er, happy Ada Lovelace Day for all my techy female friends and relatives and that ( Read more... )

I was in the Warehouse with a friend for various reasons and we swung by the Toy and Music sections on the way out. I was, ah, looking for belly-dancing music. What I found was a collection of Jazz Guitar MastersPut first cd on. Press play. Piano. More piano. Fiddling. Barber shop of "I Wanna Count Sheep Till the Cows Come Home." All very ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHM8xG6i8o

Get it off meee!!!

List 7 bits of music that you are currently into, then tag 7 others.

What I've been listening to:

Moxy Fruvious, a Canadian band with such gems as "Once I Was The King of Spain" and "Spiderman"

Simon and Garfunkel

Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

REM, a sole cd that I've been playing very frequently lately.

What I'd like to be ( Read more... )