Friday, June 19, 2015

How about those green underwater photos?

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I found a website with a personal guide to diving and staying in southern Baja California that's quite useful: http://www.thehappytale...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Best last line in a movie

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I'm not saying this is the best movie (though it's a good one). Just that it's the best last line. The line is "And that...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

What The Phantom of the Opera really means for singer Jackie Evancho

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Singing phenomenon Jackie Evancho saw The Phantom of the Opera (the movie of it) when she was just seven years old. Before then, according t...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

What do we mean when we say an artist like Jackie Evancho is "expressive" ?

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Actually, "Expressive" is the wrong word for what I'm trying to talk about, because it implies that the performer/artist is ...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

What should teenage singers wear?

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A classical music blog included an entry by a music teacher critiquing Jackie Evancho's performance on the Queen Latifah daytime tal...

Why there's a Chinese space station in "Gravity"

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Yes, there's a Chinese space station in gravity, complete with an escape pod that figures in the story. Every other structure that m...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

Gravity--no spoilers review

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Gravity's setting is in space, around space shuttles and space stations and the Hubble telescope and the like. Gravity's arc is a ...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Did Whitney Houston do right or do wrong when she redid the National Anthem back in 1991?

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Whitney Houston seriously rearranged the Nation Anthem for a football game in '91. Many loved what she did. Others said things like thi...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Jackie Evancho's new role model--Miley Cyrus?

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Jackie Evancho is a refined Classical Crossover soprano. Miley Cyrus is a badass rocker. With some things Jackie could learn from. Not tal...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Lessons for Classical Crossover singer Jackie Evancho from the American Music Awards

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Lessons for Jackie from the American Music Awards (last night) The band Imagine Dragons added a taiko-ish set of drums to their setup and di...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Jackie Evancho concert experience

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Went to see Jackie Evancho in concert Friday, November 8. I believe comments on this performance apply to most of her concerts until her new...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

re: Should all of Jackie Evancho's songs use all her singing range?

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On a Jackie Evancho forum I was talking about the need for her to perform songs that exploited her range. I said: Giving a songwriter Jack...

re: practicing one's art, using Jackie Evancho as an example

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A Jackie Evancho fan said: "If they need a tremendous amount of practicing to play a difficult technical piece then they aren't a ...

re: Classical music at church

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re: classical music at church I understand that many, many churches now use "Christian rock" / "Praise music" instead of...
Friday, August 9, 2013

Is Jackie Evancho a prodigy?

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A prodigy is someone who exhibits some kind of skill(s) considerably earlier than most other people do. A genius is someone who exhibits som...

Are gifted kids' parents always gifted? Are Jackie Evancho's?

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On a Jackie Evancho fan forum I once said "when her mother speaks for her I listen, but reserve judgment." Jackie Evancho's ...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Listening to musical experts tell me what's wrong with Jackie Evancho

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re: "talking down to professionals" My professional expertise is not music, but writing & editing and associated stuff. And ...
Sunday, June 30, 2013

How to use Hunger Games to teach your teen stuff

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Does this picture break the 4th Wall for you? I could name a hundred films I'd rather discuss with teenagers. But those aren't f...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Now that a new generation knows how great Joss Whedon is from The Avengers, it's time to introduce them to Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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You do not want Buffy looking at you this way. The challenge today is how to spread the word to those who still don't know how g...

Why don't I watch Glee any more?

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It got preachy. Now it seems to spend most of its time trying to convince the kind of people who'd never watch it that everyone sho...