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Bread and Clarinet || Father of 3 Girls || Homeschooler || Catholic || 10x Certified Salesforce Developer || Content © Me
Gonna audition for Principal Clarinet of the Knoxville Symphony on September 15th, good opportunity for me to get back in the game. Will take me all 7 weeks to get into competitive shape, I'll post my progress along the way, show you all how it works. Should be fun. Wish me luck!
Next step in the audition process is to accept their invitation and mail a $50 deposit check which they'll give me back on the day of audition, standard way to discourage last-minute cancelations by candidates. Dropping this in the mail tomorrow to make it official.
Latest Kennedy Center development: A House panel voted to rename the opera house the "First Lady Melania Trump Opera House" which has Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) seething: "The Republicans have now given the president six times the normal amount of money to run the Kennedy…
I rail against "all at once" food delivery at restaurants by refusing to order my entree until I've had a drink and an appetizer if I'm having one. You have to tell the server "no, I don't want you to put my order in now" which can tick them off but a nice tip smooths it over.
Had a dinner in a pub out of town and was looking around - noticed that people were inhaling food like the burger would disappear if they didn’t ram it down as fast as possible. These people weren’t starving, could afford to lose a few. Not broke. Meal courses were not just…
First step in the orchestral audition process is sending a resume, after which you either get invited, rejected, or asked to make a tape if they're not sure. Candidates often list every gig they've ever done, but I kept mine short. I applied yesterday, Knoxville invited me today.
Institutions exerting mind control over employees happens at lower levels too, like orchestras. That's the message I've tried to spread: Not just the story of getting fired from an orchestra, but the tremendous power of ideology over artists once it becomes institutionalized.
This just goes to show you the immense power of controlling deep state institutions and the media. You can craft any narrative at all. Something to keep in mind when you hear people whine about attacking judges, firing bureaucrats and going hard on universities. If you don’t do…
Look closely at this young Italian man. Do you recognize him? I didn’t at first, though I’ve seen him a million times. It’s Luciano Pavarotti.
The future Eagles player and I unknowingly both went to camp at The College of New Jersey in 1999, he for basketball and I for music. One day we saw each other in the lunch line, put down our trays, and ran up to each other to bro hug in the middle of the cafeteria. Walked back…
First heard “Hulkamania” from some black kids on my street. Great family, superstar athletes, kid in my grade went on to play for the Eagles. He had an older brother (future D1 athlete) who would have us younger kids from the street pile on top of him then get up and throw us off…
Hulk Hogan’s daughter Brooke did a song “Falling” in 2009 which even then was very dated, sounded like an early 90s MTV jam in the style of Faith Evans or Mary J. Blige. She looks good but a little too much like Hulk, makes you feel weird (consider yourself warned).
First heard “Hulkamania” from some black kids on my street. Great family, superstar athletes, kid in my grade went on to play for the Eagles. He had an older brother (future D1 athlete) who would have us younger kids from the street pile on top of him then get up and throw us off…
Gm daily bread Engagement way down on bread poasts, wat mean
Boards of Canada did a song "The Smallest Weird Number", 70. A "weird number" is abundant (sum of its divisors > the number) but not semiperfect (no subset of divisors adds up to the number). 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 35 add up to 74, but no subset sums to 70. The next one is 836.
G.H. Hardy once visited Ramanujan in the hospital, riding in taxicab 1729, a number he found "rather dull." Ramanujan disagreed, noting 1729 as the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. Imagine that level of command over something.
G.H. Hardy once visited Ramanujan in the hospital, riding in taxicab 1729, a number he found "rather dull." Ramanujan disagreed, noting 1729 as the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways. Imagine that level of command over something.
When speaking of the great Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician G.H. Hardy put it beautifully: “Every positive integer was one of his personal friends.” I feel the same way about music, like every note on the horn is one of my friends.
When speaking of the great Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician G.H. Hardy put it beautifully: “Every positive integer was one of his personal friends.” I feel the same way about music, like every note on the horn is one of my friends.
