Just today I got the chance to see the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter play the three Brahms violin sonatas. Her playing (as well as her accompanist Lamber Orkis') was impeccable, although I found only the third sonata to be really interesting. She also came out to play four (!) encore pieces, also by Brahms. After dazzling performances of [...]
Whoa, I got LaTeX and Lilypond working in WordPress with FigureRender. Cool stuff!
The only bump in the road was the fact that my host is running PHP4 and FigureRender was written for PHP5. The changes to make it work in PHP4 were pretty trivial, though, so I hacked up a patch. I […]
I whipped up three tracks for an audition CD for a local competition. I’m not entirely satisfied with the quality, but I might as well put them up for posterity.
Recently, I decided to start listening to some Back on a whim. I heard good things about Gould so I listened to his Goldberg Variations, both his “young” and “old” versions. Then I listened to his rendition of the Well-Tempered Clavier. I must say I’m developing a taste for Bach. I […]
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