Archive for July 2009

Dvořák, Slavonic Dance No. 8

30 July 2009

Here’s another musical piece I love, this time an arrangement of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dance No. 8 in E minor. I have Kreisler’s arrangement of this for violin and piano, but I think that the dialogue between the violoncello and violin is beautiful in this arrangement. […]

Ennio Morricone

29 July 2009

One of the best film score composers is the Italian musician Ennio Morricone. Here is one of his compositions, written for The Mission, performed in 2007 at the UN headquarters: […]

Computer trouble

15 July 2009

Unfortunately my entire Linux partition was wiped because of that, and when a Linux partition goes, the GRUB loader fails, making the entire computer unusable except by a clean installation of an operating system. [read more]

Music camp at Rowan

11 July 2009

This past week Samuel, Jonam and I have been at a music camp for high-school string instrument players at Rowan University in New Jersey. Every day from Monday until Thursday we left the house around eight in the morning and got back around ten at night; Friday was the last day, and we got home around seven. [read more]