On Saturday, the third of August, at well after the stated time of 2:00 PM, Ann Jones and Bob Smith were married at Our Lady of Sorry Acoustics. The delay was attributed to the late arrival of an aunt of the bride and was deftly covered by organist Reginald Laudfuss (now celebrating his seventh month at the church) who improvised on an original ( Read more... )

From my friend Angie:

The Mozart EffectA new report now says that the Mozart effect is a fraud. For you hip urban ( Read more... )

This evening we played a wedding at the Hackberry Country Club in Las Colinas (Irving, near DFW airport). I hate outdoor stuff under the best of circumstances, but when the wind gusts are 35 miles per hour, we're in for an unusually ridiculous ride ( Read more... )

Saturday's weddings, playing in Jeff's quartet - cheaply done, badly organized. Really amazing how anyone in the 21st century would want something in marriage vows about women submitting to men as they would to God. Add to that the inaccurate scholarship of the first preacher, who tried to say that the Book of Ruth is actually about Boaz as a pre- ( Read more... )

Silver bells, silver bells, it's gigging time in the Big-D ( Read more... )

So last night was this deeply mystical performing experience, right? Tonight's the polar opposite - 4-5 hours of big band music for someone's 93rd birthday party ( Read more... )

For the record, John Rutter writes glorious vocal music but his orchestrations are dreadful ( Read more... )

There's nothing quite as awful as sounding almost good on a solo. As in, got all the hard parts, missed an easy rhythm that caused the conductor to go back and not only start that measure over but also let everyone *know* I'd missed the easy rhythm ( Read more... )

Warning - this post is all about music and it's pretty shallow ( Read more... )

Since I don't have a ticket or pass for the synagogue (I usually sit in the Temple library and watch on closed-circuit - fewer people chew gum in the library than in the sanctuary for some reason, and it's less about what we're wearing and more about what we're learning), I'm not going to services this morning. I don't want to have to check in with ( Read more... )