42 Different Ways That Artists Can Earn Money. Questionnaire « Velvet Singer - Solutions for Classical Singers. Top 10 Apps for Freelance Bloggers. Practice like you train « innovative ideas in performance and pedagogy. I had a perhaps not so novel idea today. Why should we practice the same things every day? Instead, why shouldn’t we have a larger purpose for every single practice session and take some ideas from runners?
I’m a lapsed runner of sorts. I still run regularly, but I haven’t trained since I was an overly enthusiastic newbie two years ago. I resubscribed in a hope to get some kind of motivational tip that would spur me back into a crazed training phase. Yeah, we should have a purpose when we practice. I run about 3 to 4 times a week. I hate doing the same thing every day, so I’m not one for making up a routine. The Long Run – A longer than average practice session that gives you adequate time to cover all the areas of your playing that need consistent attention. Speedwork – Technical practice. The Recovery Run – Focused, slow practice. The Social Run – Jam session! The Whatever Run – Play what you want without pressure. *Originally published on The Sensible Flutist, August 2011 Like this:
Meredith Monk: A Voice For All Time. Hide captionWorking with the most basic human utterances, Monk's vocal music sounds fundamental and timeless. Massimo Agus/Courtesy of Universal Working with the most basic human utterances, Monk's vocal music sounds fundamental and timeless. Purchase Featured Music "Click Song 1" Album: Monk: Volcano Songs Artist: Meredith Monk Label: ECM Records Released: 1997 Amazon » "Choosing Comp" Album: Atlas: An Opera in 3 Parts Artist: Meredith Monk Label: ECM Records Released: 1993 Amazon » When I think about Meredith Monk, I think of her alone, on a stage bereft of instruments or props or other people. When Meredith Monk first came on the scene in the mid-'60s, complexity dominated concert music. Scott Schafer/Courtesy of UMG Monk changed all that. After a Meredith Monk concert, a common first impulse is to try to sing what you just heard.
Meredith Monk's music has been linked to the sacred vocal works of Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century mystic abbess and composer. Have you taken the “30-Day Opera Challenge” on FB? | Operatoonity. 30-Day Opera Challenge on Facebook As a regular user of Facebook and Twitter, I am amazed at how frequently and quickly they are maligned and/or underestimated.
I’ve gotten value–not merely social kicks–but real educational value from each of those social media platforms and made some invaluable contacts. For opera lovers on Facebook feeling the newly identified Facebook Fatigue, I have the perfect antidote: Try the “30-Day Opera Challenge” on FB. It’s simple. All you need do is go to the page and “Like” it. Then check out the Info tab on the left-hand side and read through the instructions. Like other “30-Day Challenges” on Facebook, you are required to post something every day that relates to something you like or should do. Here’s are the posts you need to make on Facebook in 30 days: Doesn’t that sound like fun? Paulo Montoya aka @Operarules I first noticed the challenge when an opera lover on both Facebook and Twitter Paulo Montoya began participating. Just like Paulo said. Like this: Top 10 Composers Who Make You Seem Cool When You Tell Other Musicians You Like Them | William C. White.
Aka Stuff Music People Like You go to a friend’s concert/opera performance/chamber recital at an acclaimed school of music or summer festival. You’re invited to the party afterwards. There is wine, there is cheese, there’s a respectable collection of craft brews. There’s a strange mix of young people and old hangers-on, all of whom are way too intense and riled up because of the concert. You find yourself in a conversation with the type of people who want to talk about their favorite composers at a party. But let’s say you’re trapped next to the drink table, or you have a fighting spirit, or this is Imaginationland, and there are some hotties at an orchestra party who you want to impress.
I’m here to help. 1. No musician, be they orchestralist, vocalist, Old Music-ist, New Music-ist, keyboardist or lutenist will disparage the name of J. If you say Bach, you leave yourself open to a discussion of his individual pieces. They will not respond with a BWV number. 2. 3. 4. Correct: Intense. About - Slow Money. The Slow Money Alliance is a national network and a family of local networks, organized around: The Slow Money Principles New ways of thinking about the relationship between food, money and soil; Regional EventsSlow Money Institutes, local discussion groups and entrepreneur showcases organized by Slow Money chapters;National GatheringsAnnual events that bring together investors, donors, entrepreneurs, activists and farmers from around the country and the world; and, Financial Products and ServicesIncubating new vehicles to make it easier for individuals of all economic backgrounds to participate, including the first of these to launch, The Soil Trust.
Our members include experienced investors, leading food entrepreneurs, social investment pioneers, organic farmers and just plain old regular folks who are worried about where their investments are going or who want to chip in small donations. “Slow Money is critical to the future of social investing.” “It brings tears to my eyes.” Dan Lybarger: Oh, Say Can't You Sing? Why the National Anthem Befuddles Singers. Last week, I, like 100 million others, watched the spectacle of Christina Aguilera wailing her way through "The Star Spangled Banner. " When she wound up repeating the line "What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming," I began to wonder if I hadn't remembered the words properly.
I soon realized that this was not the case because the lyrics were playing on a screen behind her head. Perhaps if she had been facing another direction, she might have avoided the "mistake heard round the world. " Aguilera's Not Alone While all of us who have grown up in the United States have been raised hearing the National Anthem from birth, it's frighteningly easy to forget portions of it.
There was also a great scene in All in the Family where the ignorant Archie Bunker inadvertently mashed up Francis Scott Key's lyrics with "My Country Tis of Thee," which takes its melody from "God Save the Queen," the national anthem for the United Kingdom. The Tale of the Tune They consumed alcohol. Scenes From "Anna Nicole: The Opera" What’s the Answer, Gertrude? « Mass Culture Mozart. The Compleat Steve :: Essays :: The Grand Old Opera. Export and Analyze Social Media Analytics | Export.ly.
4 money situations where you need to think twice before saying yes to the gig. 33 Things I've Never Told You (or, How to Re-Introduce Yourself and Kick Your Watered-Down Self in the Ass) That’s me, riding my dog in the photo over there. I do shit like that sometimes. Maybe you didn’t know that, so let me explain. For the past 16 months that I’ve been blogging here, I have to tell you I’ve never been fully satisfied with the “voice” I’ve created for myself.
By that, I mean the personality I’ve conveyed through my words. In writing, especially blogging, there’s something known as finding your voice. It’s about how you come across to your readers. You know, serious, funny, witty, stoic, focused, humble, demure, etc. I’ve been reading a lot on the subject of voice and self expression lately. There’s a part of me that has never felt fully self-expressed here. C’mon bloggers, I know you know what I’m talking about. How do you convey your full personality through words? There are two areas that keep us (or me) from fully self-expressing ourselves: The first is courage. Without the courage and skills, many of us end up with a half-assed persona online. GYST: Getting Your Sh*t Together: Business Software and Support for Visual Artists - Products. GYST provides software, publications, and other services for artists. We have a range of artists working together to cover many aspects of your career. Please see the services area for other things we may be able to help you with.
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Track Down Your "Fame Friend" | Social Media Marketing Made Easy | Facebook & Twitter for Business. A core component of my Creating Fame strategy is getting press online. But how do you know what kind of websites are looking to feature people like you? First, you need to find some “Fame Friends”. These are people/businesses who share an audience with you and would therefore be featured in same types of places you would want to be featured in. Start by making a list of the blogs/business sites already on your radar that you think your audience reads as well.
Next go to google alerts and enter the full name of that person or business (you can try out my name to start). Need more actionable advice? Get your FREE weekly marketing “to-do” list straight to your inbox every Wednesday: Musician Email List Etiquette. Stop Using the C-Word. Music review: High-class experimentalism from League of the Unsound Sound. 10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process. At 99U, we try to demystify the creative process.
To show you the real inner-workings of how ideas are made to happen by sharing the thought processes and creative practices of great achievers. Here, with the help of our readers, we’ve rounded up some of the best videos on idea execution from artists, writers, designers, storytellers, researchers, and chocolatiers. 1. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible (53:12) This rich and wonderful profile of acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge comes from PBS’s Art:21 series. It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened. 2. The most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. 3. Sometimes we over-value our own experience. I know that being right is a pretty deadly thing. 4. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. 5. Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius. 6. 7. Weekly Poem: 'Green Door' | Art Beat.
Orchestra defines its classical music role. There are two questions people continue to ask of Arizona Chamber Orchestra founder Gal Faganel: • Is your upstart chamber ensemble taking audiences and supporters away from existing arts organizations? • Why start something this ambitious when the economy is bad? The 31-year-old cellist has optimistic answers for both. "I don't think we really compete in that way.
We're looking at attracting a new audience," he says to question No. 1. To question No. 2: "Because I just take a longer view. On Saturday, Faganel's ensemble will make its second appearance in Tucson to play a concert of classical works featured in Hollywood films. "We hope to make it exciting and captivating enough that when they do come, they will want to return," he said. The Arizona Chamber Orchestra is made up of musicians from throughout Arizona and California, including three from Tucson - violinists Diane Zelickman and Emma Noel Votapek, and Votapek's cellist husband, Mark Votapek.
If you go • When: 8 p.m. . • Where: St. 11 Ways to Write an Irresistible Intro to Your Blog Post. Imagine that you’ve been invited to a party where you don’t know anyone. You’ve come through the door, grab a drink, and stand there feeling like a pony with five legs. Nobody seems to pay any attention to you. After a while you start sidling to the door in order to escape. Or maybe you tough it out and start ‘making conversation’. Ok, so this scenario isn’t much fun. Here’s another scenario: You go to the same party. But this time the host spots you hovering on the doorstep, guides you into the room, hands you a drink and shows you around, introducing you to the other guests. That would feel a lot better, right? The difference lies in the introduction. In the first scenario, you didn’t feel welcome. When you think of visiting a blog and reading a post, the experience is quite similar.
Why? Because the headline promised a wonderful experience, but the start of the post didn’t match up. What makes the introduction to your blog post irresistible? 1. Example 1: What motivates you? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Memorization as an Emotional Place. Joshua Foer's Secrets of a Mind-Gamer in the February 15th New York Times looks at the secrets of memory champions and how someone with an only average memory is able to achieve transhuman mnemonic feats at the World Memory Championships. Foer's secret lay in the memory palace technique: The answer lies in a discovery supposedly made by the poet Simonides of Ceos in the fifth century B.C. After a tragic banquet-hall collapse, of which he was the sole survivor, Simonides was asked to give an account of who was buried in the debris. When the poet closed his eyes and reconstructed the crumbled building in his imagination, he had an extraordinary realization: he remembered where each of the guests at the ill-fated dinner had been sitting.
Even though he made no conscious effort to memorize the layout of the room, it nonetheless left a durable impression. Since reading the article, I've been fascinated by how this type of memory process might be applied to music. Maybe. Do we really need to sex up opera? - Features, Classical. The latest occasion is the Royal Opera House's plans to perform a new Mark-Anthony Turnage opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy model who died from a drug overdose four years ago after a tempestuous life of grotesquely enhanced breasts and bad behaviour in search of wealth and stardom.
"Shocking," say the opera purists. "Needed," retorts the opera house, "if we are to attract new and younger audiences. " We've been here before, of course. Our own columnist, Philip Hensher, was the librettist of Thomas Adès's opera, Powder Her Face of 1995 about the life of the notorious adulteress , the Duchess of Argyll, who was accused of having 88 lovers at the time of her divorce in 1963. "Go to bed early and often," was said to be her motto. The chamber work, which had the singular distinction of introducing the first act of fellatio on stage in opera, has been broadcast several times on BBC and was produced by the Royal Opera House only last year.
It's an old dilemma. Do You Video? | The Home Of Peter Shankman. DO YOU VIDEO? 3 years ago Which do you think is cooler, more fun, and would generate a higher response/action rate? " "I saw a cool launch at NASA the other day" Or this? It's really not a question. Yet people are STILL afraid to include video in their day to day online lives! No, you don't have to do it all the time - But yes, it's important to do, and good video should be one of the cornerstones of your social media (and online as a whole) strategy. DISCLOSURE: I'm an angel investor in one of the companies I mention below - Pixability. Video is surprisingly easy. Basics: Go to Flip and get yourself a Flipcam.
If you have some money to spend, you can get all fancy and buy a decent camcorder. Most important though, use what works for you. Content: Record whatever strikes your fancy. Insofar as what to record, that's up to you. I've said it before: You can't make anything viral. Carry the camera, and just start shooting. Progressing: I mentioned that I invested in a company called Pixability. Ten Rules for Street Musicians.