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Maestro Fox and cellist Cecilia Tsan rehearsing Sayuri’s Theme (Memoirs of a Geisha) (Taken with Instagram at Warner Grand Theatre)
Skylight (Taken with Instagram at Walt Disney Concert Hall)
Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet rehearsing Dvorak Violin Concerto (Taken with Instagram at Lefrak Concert Hall)
Ok. I’ll post a photo for once. And if you wanted to know something about me…
I love people. I love music. I love what I do. I love sharing it with other people and growing with people through the music we make together.
Connecting is my passion.
Through composing, conducting, and performing, my sole desire is to interact with others to experience and deliver a powerful musical statement that consists of all the hopes and dreams, toils and tears, warmth and bitterness, and all that makes us human. In addition to these aspects, each individual has his or her own varying strengths and weaknesses that are completely unique. And when all the differing strengths and experiences are combined, the result is an expression greater than what any one can produce by his or her own capabilities.
I find incredible beauty in every human being, and when we all participate in the cooperative effort of making sound, the most beautiful spirit of humanity fills the room.
I may have much to learn, but I know I will be composing and conducting and studying music until the day I die. I also know that it wouldn’t be real without the people I share it with.
This is my friend. And all of the above, so beautifully said.
What better way to #relax after a chamber music concert in Palos Verdes? Visit the #Starbucks with the best #ocean #sunset #view (Taken with instagram)
The 2012 Colour Run is currently touring through 20 U.S. cities. The only requirement is wearing a white shirt. Throughout the run, participants are doused in bright pigments (cornstarch that is 100% natural and safe). Each kilometer is focused on a specific color – 1k is yellow, 2k is blue, 3k is green, 4k is pink, and the 5k finish is a “Colour Extravaganza” where a rainbow of hues are thrown.
File under: reasons I love living in a big city. TOTALLY DOING THIS.
I believe I’m signing up for this. YES!
Sleeping At Last - plus cello (Taken with Instagram at James Armstrong Theatre)
Playing tonight in a quartet for Ryan O’Neal/Sleeping At Last! (Taken with Instagram at James Armstrong Theatre)
The Science of Why Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ Makes Everyone Cry
Tension, resolution, and the ever important “buildy-ness” (which is a term I invented but is accurate), these are the characteristics behind the most extreme emotional reactions to songs:
Twenty years ago, the British psychologist John Sloboda conducted a simple experiment. He asked music lovers to identify passages of songs that reliably set off a physical reaction, such as tears or goose bumps. Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an “appoggiatura.”
An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. “This generates tension in the listener,” said Martin Guhn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who co-wrote a 2007 study on the subject. “When the notes return to the anticipated melody, the tension resolves, and it feels good.”
Chills often descend on listeners at these moments of resolution. When several appoggiaturas occur next to each other in a melody, it generates a cycle of tension and release. This provokes an even stronger reaction, and that is when the tears start to flow.
There’s just about the most detailed scientific analysis of a Grammy-winning song ever at the link.
(via WSJ.com)
Music can bring you to tears.
This is brilliant.
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
The Digerati.
Front, left to right: Eric Schmidt, CEO Google; Unknown; Steve Westly, former eBay executive; Steve Jobs, CEO Apple; Barack Obama, President, USA; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook; Unknown.
Back, right to left: Dick Costello, CEO Twitter; Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo; John Hennesy, President, Stanford; Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix; Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle; John Doerr, Partner, Kliener Perkins Caulfield & Byers; John Chambers, CEO Cisco Systems, Unknown, Art Levinson, CEO Genetech.
This is so… much.
