SymphonyCast, provided by National Public Radio (USA). Some archive streams available. Great recordings and live performances, 8p Thursday evenings Minneapolis time (USA).
Links
The bookmarks below appear in alphabetically-sorted groups.
Audio
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SymphonyCast
blogs
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43 Folders
43Folders.com calls itself: "Merlin Mann’s website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work." Philosophies, stuff to consider, and other useful meanderings.
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mnmlist
As titled.
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Slow Leadership
Slow Leadership provides a different [moderately idealistic] point of view on common workplace topics: relationships, problem solving, time use, planning, and the like. The SL blog provokes readers to reconsider solving those obvious, life-changing problems that get left behind in the flood of more important work.
Brass-related
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Bert Truax's Site
A general reference for brass players. Good notes on James Stamp.
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MusicForBrass.com
Brad Howland (Canadian trombonist) has a small music publishing business online. Not to be missed is the MFB.com article library, which includes an essay on that curious bother named player's 'kitch', also called valsalva, hesitation, and quite a few other things.
Music Resources
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Staff Paper (Univ of Virginia)
Perry Roland is one of the repository librarians at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). He has generously collected PDF and Postscript (PS) staff paper files of various sizes and styles - choral, instrumental, many or few staves per page. An excellent resource for basic materials.
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Victorian Music Library
The Victorian Music Library is a non-profit collection located at the Uniting Church Archives in Elsternwick, VIC. The library includes more than 15,000 instrumental and vocal solo, chamber, and large ensemble works - a very important resource in Melbourne and Victoria music community. Consider joining, or volunteering your time to help them in their work.
Musicians
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Carol Jarvis
Tenor trombonist Carol Jarvis was a founding member of the incredible women's trombone quartet Bones Apart. She keeps busy as a jazz and classical player, writes, and travels extensively. Check out her blog.
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Doug Yeo's Site
One of the earliest trombone-related sites, YeoDoug.com is thorough and growing.
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Hank Feldman, Tubist & Euphoniumist
Hank has some serious tuba & teaching chops. Check out some of the samples on the CD page.
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Jay Friedman's Blog
Jay Friedman, Principal Trombonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He's organized.
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Kela Walton - Harpist
Austin, Texas based harpist & educator Kela Walton.
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The Boston Typewriter Orchestra
They play typewriters.
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The Grainger Wind Symphony
The Grainger Wind Symphony is an high-level community ensemble that draws music professionals and established amateurs from the Melbourne metropolitan area. It performs standard repertoire and also provides a forum for new works, especially world and Australian premiers.
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The University of Texas at Austin Trombone Studio
A major stop in the trombone playing world, and my alma mater. Dr Nathaniel Brickens, Professor of Trombone.
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Tom Ervin's Site
Tom Ervin keeps some good gems of thought & articles online.
Philosophy
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The Cluetrain Manifesto
95 Theses for the year 1999. And today.
Reading
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The Open Library Project
Like wikipedia, but as a card catalog. Includes full text for some thousands of public domain works. If you can't find your book there ... add it.
teaching
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Method Behind The Music - Flash Piano
Numbera.com is a collection of basic theory articles & lessons. There is also a nifty flash-based piano, useful for pitches in a pinch when a real instrument or tuner isn't available.
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Musicteacher.com.au
At least one place to find and compare skilled music teachers in your area. Australia-specific.
View my own profile by clicking the image:
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Ricci Adams' Music Theory Site
Ricci Adams keeps a collection of flash-based music theory aids. They include interval and clef trainers, ear trainers, and lessons on various fundamentals. A great resource for students (and pros who want to brush up on all their clefs!).
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VCE Curriculum Mat'ls - Solo Performance
This VCE information (VCAA website) includes the study design, outcome requirements, prescribed music list, etc. You can download a PDF of the Music Performance Lists and Design under the Curriculum section.
Teaching
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The Washington Trombone Ensemble
David Fetter put this link on the Trombone-L. As he says: "Talk about skill, stamina, expression, refinement..."
A full hour of great trombone sounds!
Tech Hardware
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CNET Reviews
CNET is my preferred site for technology reviews and commentary. They also keep dedicated locale sites. Check out their Australian market site.
Tech Software
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dafont.com
I don't know what I think until I write it down ... in a cool font.
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Firefox
It's not for everyone, but it works for me.
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Google
What can I say? The definitive search engine.
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Inkscape
Open-source vector graphic editing software. Think Adobe power, but ... cheaper.
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Mozilla Songbird
Mozilla Songbird is an iTunes alternative. As of 2009, Songbird is in heavy development (ie beta), so expect it to be incomplete. It is, nonetheless, an excellent tool.
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Open Source Alt
OSAlt provides a long list of open source and commercial software, organized by function. Each description includes suggestions for open and commercial alternatives.
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Time Left
A simple, floating timer. Good for use as a stop watch or as a countdown timer ... good practice timer in a pinch! (Windows-based)
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Treeline - A Cross-Platform Outliner
The Treeline Outliner, a personal information manager based on Qt. Great tool, easy to use. Windows and Linux binaries available.
Thinking Tools
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Spreeder
Spreeder is a speed-reading display tool. Paste in a chunk of text, and it will flash it up to you at whatever rate you like. It offers a variable WPM, chunk/group size, and other features. Try it out.
Trombone
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Doug Yeo's Site
One of the earliest trombone-related sites, YeoDoug.com is thorough and growing.
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Jay Friedman's Blog
Jay Friedman, Principal Trombonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He's organized.
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The International Trombone Association
The International Trombone Association home page. Also, information on the yearly ITA Festivals.
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The Online Trombone Journal
The OTJ has an article collection, forum, and home for the trombone-L. Great resource to browse.
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The Washington Trombone Ensemble
David Fetter put this link on the Trombone-L. As he says: "Talk about skill, stamina, expression, refinement..."
A full hour of great trombone sounds!
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The Washington Trombone Ensemble
David Fetter put this link on the Trombone-L. As he says: "Talk about skill, stamina, expression, refinement..."
A full hour of great trombone sounds!
Typing
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Dvorak typing tutor
Another useful Dvorak typing tutor. This tutor is largely based upon full words. If you haven't, do the Powertyping tutorial first.
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Powertyping.com
Typing tutorials for both Dvorak and QWERTY keyboard layouts. Great tools for building typing proficiency and speed.
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Typefaster Typing Tutor
Typefaster is an open-source typing tutor. If you are serious about improving your typing skills, this is a great way to do it. Typefaster even includes Dvorak-specific tutorials. Sourceforge software and projects are always spyware free.
Video
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Bill Evans Trio - Emily (youtube)
Ah, blast. I posted this link awhile ago (2009?), and now it's broken. Nowhere to be found, I am afraid, and I did not keep a copy. All the same with my other Bill Evans recording, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB4yDuzjxb8
Let that be a lesson: if you find something good on the internet, you had best keep a copy. It may be gone next time.Live performance video. Bill Evans Trio popularized the jazz waltz "Emily". Johnny Mandel and Johnny Mercer wrote it as the theme to the 1964 movie "The Americanization of Emily", featuring Julie Andrews. Andrews sang the tune.
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Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby (youtube)
Another great jazz waltz, played by Bill Evans Trio. The opening is in 3, but the up section switches over to a waltz in 4.
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Guilmant, Felix Alexandre - Morceau Symphonique
Performed by Massimo La Rosa (trombone) and Marco Cardario (piano). Standard repertoire for trombone.
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The Washington Trombone Ensemble
David Fetter put this link on the Trombone-L. As he says: "Talk about skill, stamina, expression, refinement..."
A full hour of great trombone sounds!
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The Washington Trombone Ensemble
David Fetter put this link on the Trombone-L. As he says: "Talk about skill, stamina, expression, refinement..."
A full hour of great trombone sounds!
