prague 2009
Festpol BadgeGünter Auer advertising for Tiscover…
so, five years after going there w/simon, sarah & theresa, i finally made it back to prague. i love that place. the innsbruck police band was invited to FESTPOL 2009. sadly, we didn’t have too much spare time away from group activities, so i’m going to have to [...]
happy birthday, dmitri
it’s shostakovich’s (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич) 100th birthday today. find out more about shostakovich at wikipedia. mozart might have turned 250 this year, but that was no reason in my eyes to declare 2006 as “mozart year”. i’ll admit, i like some of mozart’s stuff, but everyone seems pressured to play mozart. i can’t listen to [...]
free brass music
i started arranging and collecting trombone quartets a while back, and have now decided to offer the fruits of my labour for public consumption and enjoyment. click on the link “free brass music” in the menu on the right to have a poke around and see what’s there (or click this link: http://binabik.boldlygoingnowhere.org/trbns/
at the moment [...]
#define music;
ok, that title is probably something only friendly computer geeks will understand.
last night i had an interesting evening out. orchestra rehearsal where the brass players were totally ignored by the strings (as usual). at least until afterwards where we all went for a beer. two trombonists (mike w. and myself) started off on a table [...]