Posts Tagged ‘musical philosophy’
Don’t Keep Up With the Joneses
Posted by: bwalters on: January 24, 2012
Everyone’s “favorite” encyclopedia provides the following definition for “Keeping up with the Joneses” : ”an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one’s neighbor as a benchmark for social caste or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to ‘keep up with the Joneses’ is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.” So what does [...]
2011 in Review
Posted by: tyonce on: January 3, 2012
It’s been a busy, full year. Usually, I assess what I’ve done (and haven’t managed to get done) at the end of the academic year; as a college professor, my concept of a “year” goes from August to May. However, it probably isn’t a bad idea to perform a mid-year check-up. While it’s easy to [...]
Expression and Enjoyment
Posted by: jdunnavant on: November 10, 2011
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Today was a gray, wet, windy, chilly day. It was miserable, and as someone who’s lived through lots of winters in Nashville, I know that it’s likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. The traffic was heavy and all the stoplights were red. And I was clumsy all day–I dropped 130 graded tests on [...]
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Paula Brusky - Bassoonist, injury prevention expert, professor, founding director of BCMCC. |
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Alexis Del Palazzo - Flutist, contemporary music enthusiast, musician wellness expert. |
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Jessica Dunnavant - Flutist, professor, early music enthusiast. |
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Diane Haslam - Singer, professor, writer. |
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Stephanie Henke - Oboist, DMA student. |
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Alexandra Monchick - Professor, musicologist, flutist. |
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Bart Walters - Jazz and classical saxophonist, popular music expert, former Army musician. |
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Tammy Evans Yonce - Flutist, professor, chamber and orchestral musician, contemporary music fan. |