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...
Friday, June 28, 2013

Orphan Black--no-spoilers review

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If ever a TV show needed a no-spoilers review it's this one. The trouble is, everything's a spoiler when ...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Great singer most Americans have never heard of

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Ever heard of Neli Andreeva ( Нели Андреева ) ? Probably not. She's Bulgarian, known in her homeland as a great singer of both folk m...
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On the Business of Art, using the case of Jackie Evancho's official website

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Lately the official fansite of young Classical Crossover singer Jackie Evancho has fallen into disrepair. The site has been refusing to a...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Can a performer tell a publication which photos to use in an article?

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Operatic mezzo Cecelia Bartoli did so with a German publication that was reviewing a concert she'd given. I read about it here . I poste...

No-spoilers review of Star Trek--Into Darkness

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/star_trek_into_darkness.png It may seem paradoxical to review a summer popcorn blockbuster movie for fans of...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Tioga Lake--pristine nature

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This is a panorama photo I shot of Tioga Lake, from the campground there, at around 2,950m elevation (about 9,650 ft.). The mountain tops...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

What is it?

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What is it? A drawing. What's it a drawing of? Ink.