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Should hard music sound hard?

The group is in Australia right now, having an fantastic time with students in Melbourne and Brisbane and enjoying concerts in same, with Sydney thrown into the mix, as well as lots of good coffee, wine, beer and food, all at exorbitant prices (holy crap the US dollar sucks). We sometimes have some free nights [...]

US Standardized testing for music: I failed 4/4

I was checking out the NY Times and they had an article on sluggish math results and more indicators of the abysmal failure that is “No Child Left Behind.” I was curious to see what kind of questions the kids were being asked, and the article had a link to the National Assessment of Educational [...]

eighth blackbird, the torrent

Google alerts rock, for a huge variety of reasons. I only have a couple of them set up, and naturally “eighth blackbird” is one of them. And so what do I find in my email inbox just now? A google alert for a torrent link to download our Strange Imaginary Animals CD. Should I be [...]