This post is actually my final essay for LIB 310, Creativity, here at GVSU: Being both a passionate musician and an audio engineer on the verge of hurling myself into “the real world,” I’ve been examining and pondering this new musical climate, and it seems to be an incredible time to be a sound recordist, to be an instrumentalist, and to be a music lover.
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April 19, 2010, at 6:00 am — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing — poem / Poetry / regret / Tharuna Devchand / THEME: poetry
An old woman sat on a foot high wall; April 18, 2010, at 7:30 am — Arts and Culture | Audio | Poetry | poetry reading | Writing — Nicky Schildkraut / poem / Poetry / poetry reading / THEME: poetry
It was never autobiographical. They said to write, I gave you up, out of love. Next door, the washer thumped in heat, and the other girls were embroidering in the kitchen, god god god. April 18, 2010, at 6:30 am — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing — Joanna Lord / poem / Poetry / THEME: poetry
Her mouth is a disease, April 17, 2010, at 7:00 am — Arts and Culture | Audio | Poetry | poetry reading | Writing — Nicky Schildkraut / poem / Poetry / poetry reading / THEME: poetry
It was never allegorical. He stood in the center, slightly displaced from the others. One thinner leg, withered from polio. Thick glasses. “In time I’ll have to throttle up and go. April 16, 2010, at 2:08 pm — Arts and Culture | Audio | Poetry | poetry reading | Writing — Nicky Schildkraut / poem / Poetry / poetry reading / THEME: poetry
A boy hurries to the grocery for fresh bread, but finds it already closed. Returning home, his father spanks him. The moral of the story is: It doesn’t matter if you hurry. April 15, 2010, at 6:42 pm — Arts and Culture | Audio | Music | music tracks — classical music / Derek Polischuk / Music / musician / orchestra / pianist / piano / piano concerto / Shostakovich / strings / trumpet
The Avocado Jungle is excited to share with you an excellent performance of the Shostakovich Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and String Orchestra, Op. 35. Pianist Derek Polischuk is on the stage with Richard Illman on trumpet and the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra. Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 – I. Allegretto April 15, 2010, at 6:38 pm — Arts and Culture | Audio | audio interview | Interviews | Music — classical music / Derek Polischuk / interview / Mozart / Music / musician / pianist / piano / Shostakovich
I had the pleasure of an interview with concert pianist, educator, and great guy Derek Polischuk. This is the second part of two. Listen to part two of the interview. Or go to part one. April 15, 2010, at 10:58 am — Blogs | Comics — Comics / Congo and Steve / humor / Poetry / THEME: poetry
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