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A must watch! Heartwarming and socially relent…this is peace and love in action! OrKidstra is my family and where I find true belonging. My song Music Can Change the World is also at the beginning of this video! #music #youthmusic #youthempowerment #socialchangemakers #musicforsocialchange #nonprofitorganization #nonprofit #ottawa #youthorchestra #conductor #musicsaves

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More resources are a double-edged sword. Talent is context dependent. Clarity is everything. I picked up this record recently, and these two amazing musicians demonstrate this point on every Rag in this performance. I "dropped the needle" on my favorite performance so you can start your Friday out right! Ravi Shankar was one of the world's most beloved musicians and well-known sitar players. More well-known in Indian communities, Ali Akbar Khan was a masterful sarod player (a sarod is similar to a banjo in construction but has a more diverse timbral palette). The tabla is performed by Alla Rakha. Why is this performance so stellar? Because all the musicians are clear on which notes to play (and which ones to gracefully avoid). They know the divisions of the Raga and they know larger grouping conventions like the tehai to which this piece culminates. Like wizards, they take these conventions, these incantations of all past performances, and use them as a starting point for their own collective and creative expression. Most of this performance is improvised, with the exception of the main melody. I sincerely doubt that much of this music was worked out ahead of time. What I take with me from this into my own work are the following points: 1. Be clear on what I need to bring to the group; 2. Know when to bring it to the group; 3. Understand the conventions and make the fundamentals second nature https://lnkd.in/eRD5zKqh

https://lnkd.in/e-swp5Kp This is it! 🎵 I am so thrilled to share with you my last work for orchestra, Shores (working title: "Longing For Belonging"), conducted by Erin Bodnar. I want to thank the Mostly Modern Festival for choosing my work and giving me this tremendous opportunity to make my music happen - it's more rare than you could imagine! The piece has a suffered story. If you want to know more about it, here's an extract of the program notes. "It all started with “The Island” - a long time ago, probably during the pandemic in 2020, as a musical theater piece [...] meant to be based on a dialogue by Cesare Pavese, part of the book “Dialoghi con Leucò”. I remember reading this book and that “The Island” dialogue in particular, and getting so emotionally involved. It was about the story between Odysseus and Calypso, in a sort of alternative ending of the Odyssey where the protagonist decides not to come back home, but stay on the island with Calypso, because - freely paraphrasing her words from the book: It's just an island, what difference does it make where you decide to lie down and rest your head? And even if you eventually manage to come back to Ithaca, will you even be able to recognize your own houses after 20 years? And the people? Some of them will certainly be understanding, but will you ever be able to share what you have seen and done? You will feel more alone than in the sea. At the time, I found it interesting for the implications of the piece: it was full of insights about what it means to be isolated, and what is the meaning of travel and returning home. It was, as I said, during the pandemic, so of course, the theme was also resonating with the current situation in my life where I was in Germany and couldn’t come back home to Italy. It was a tough time in my life, I was scared for my loved ones - I remember having nightmares every single night. Anyway, the project evolved, but I never actually managed to make it an opera: not only because of the lack of funding, but also - to be honest - because the dialogue was so full and rich of intellectual interest that I found it difficult to transpose it into a libretto to be sung and not really “understood”.

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I'm sure many of you knew that it is St David's Day, but how many of you knew that it is also Peanut Butter Lover's Day? I love peanut butter so I'll be having some today. Read the blog in the post below and let me know what you think in the comments below... #lowcarbintheuk #StDavidsDay #peanutbutterloversday #HOPEprotocol #lifetransformation

How To Practice Jazz Living In Relationships By Leah Skurdal Let’s unpack three improvisational Jazz Living principles as foundational keys to building robust and flexible relationships. https://lnkd.in/d5bkvXqe

How To Practice Jazz Living In Relationships By Leah Skurdal Let’s unpack three improvisational Jazz Living principles as foundational keys to building robust and flexible relationships. https://lnkd.in/dz-fwKuG