My brother plays Bizet Symphony No. 1
Today’s Why We Make Music: Watch my sibling be a real-life professional, performing musician and understand why this is important & awesome. Can you find a face that resembles mine?…
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Seth Bailin’s Thoughts
Why I Teach Music: Opportunities to think, write, talk, and impact how music influences humanity. Seth Bailin is a Greater Boston area musician. I met Seth at a parade where…
Read More Classical and metal fans: birds of a feather?
Today’s Why We Make Music: Diversity in taste, ability to appreciate beauty in complex creations, a kind heart. Full disclosure: I have a soft spot in my musical collection for…
Read More The boy with incredible ears
Today’s Why We Make Music: Do things that look like magic from layman’s eyes. A boy name Dylan wows social media first with his perfect pitch identification video. When doubters…
Read More Winter Recital 2016
This year our winter recital took place at the LilyPad in Cambridge. Four pianists participated in this performance and each player memorized two to three pieces, plus a duet at…
Read More Time for Three’s violin cover of Taylor Swift’s 2014 song, “Shake It Off”
Today’s Why We Make Music: Just look at that joy on their faces. These aren’t actors.
Read More Classical Music Mashup
Today’s Why We Make Music: More Mashups! A challenge from the creator, YouTuber Grant Woolard: “I’ve woven together 57 famous classical tunes by 33 composers. How many can you identify?”
Read More The well tempered cavalier
There’s something very wonderful about being able to understand seriously terrible puns:
Read More A story from our studio on practicing with mom
Why I Teach Music: A short story from Metro Gnome Studio! Last night during a lesson my student said, “I like to practice by myself.” (vs. practicing with her mom).…
Read More Inspiring one-handed cellist Michael Spencer
Today’s Why We Make Music: It’s for all of us. Inspirational footage of one handed-cellist Michael Spencer performing François-Joseph Gossec’s ‘Gavotte’ at a private recital in Utah (2014):
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