A pet project of mine over spring break and the past few days has been a site called Why I’m Great, a forum similar to fmylife.com where, instead of complaining about how their lives suck, visitors can brag about how awesome they are, all under the cloak of web anonymity. My friend Sean came up
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The bicentennial of Chopin’s birthday lasted from February 22nd until March 1st of this year. Over that span of time — the first date being the D.O.B. on Chopin’s baptism certificate and the second being the D.O.B. that he and his family celebrated — 171 hours of Chopin’s music was performed across Poland, his country
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Ahh, Wikipedia. The online encyclopedia, which according to United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, “everybody knows is never wrong,”[1] has become the number one source for most high school research papers, as one study shows.[2] Although other prominent figures, most notably the members of the Buena Vista Social Club[3], have disputed the accuracy
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Shortly after I woke up I got a phone call from my excited girlfriend, Jenna. She had seen online that her dream dog — a dog that was adopted by somebody else from the Charlottesville SPCA two days ago — was returned to the shelter. I got ready and we drove over, eager to play
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I spent the 17th – 19th at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University interviewing for a spot in their composition masters program. I took some theory and ear training tests and interviewed for a couple teaching assistantships as well. Overall, I was impressed with the conservatory. The three concert halls had great acoustics, the
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Again, here is another port from my old site onto this blog: BackgroundIn August of 2008 I began teaching piano skills, repertoire, and theory to UVA students and Charlottesville residents. At first I was nervous… I can play the piano..but can I teach it? After my first lesson, however, I realized that teaching piano was
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I put six patches on the Max/MSP page — go check em out! In other news, Virginia has been hit with one nasty snow storm, which I had the good fortune of driving through for eight hours last night. The normally pleasant three-hour drive from Charlottesville to Virginia Beach ended up being pretty treacherous. Between
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On Saturday we had our first snow of the season in Charlottesville. I hope we get more soon. I’ve been busy lately with papers, compositions, and school in general, but things are finally starting to come together. What a semester! Here are some more pictures:
I finally found a free evening to purchase this domain name and stake my place on the internet. Let me know if you notice anything funky going on with the site! I’d greatly appreciate your feedback. Although I’m going to be busy with school work and other projects this semester, I’ll try to update this
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