Teaching

November 19, 2019 17:00 EST Boston, Massachusetts

Another PAGE whose contents are shoved into a blog post so I can free up my website for what I’m currently doing. Yes, I still teach.

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Energy: electricity, electric vehicles

November 19, 2019 at 16:55 EST
Boston, Massachusetts

I am redoing my website so it’s about what I currently do and want to do in the near future. The PAGE tabs will be deleted. Here is what was on the ENERGY TAB.

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Two roads diverged in ukulele: strum vs pluck

Ukulele players today mainly exist in one of two worlds. If you go to a ukulele club, you’re most likely a hum and strum or strum and sing person. If you belong to a ukulele ensemble or ukulele orchestra, you’re more likely to be a plucker. The former is a singalong. The latter is instrumental.

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Mauro Giuliani Polonoise or Polonaise from Op. 65

Should it be “polonoise” as printed on the title page of the sheet music or “polonaise” as we know it?

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Of guitar quartets and ensemble playing

In January 2018, I started a new ukulele group and joined the Boston Guitar Orchestra. For the latter, I begged the conductor to translate the notated sheet music for guitar part four into tablature so that I could read it. I had not touched the classical guitar for more than twenty years.

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Happy Fourth of July! Invitations to concerts

Happy Fourth of July! So many FREE concerts in the Boston area next week. My latest ukulele mail-out below includes a NOT FREE concert of a non-traditional string quartet from the Bay Area and my Boston Guitar Orchestra rehearsals and concerts.
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Solstice at Eustis 2019

Just an idea. It rhymes. It catches on.

How do we combine guitar and ukulele? One after another? Or together? At Derek Gripper’s African Music Workshop both instruments were welcomed in the same room. Everyone played together. It was one sound field.

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Ukulele Mailing List – latest e-mail

I keep a growing mailing list of ukulele students, peers, and others who are hugely interested in the instrument and everything about playing music together. However, I’m never sure that my emails actually reach those on my mailing list because sometimes Google Groups hangs up on me. So here goes the latest.
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Blacklisted IP address without warning

After several consecutive busy weeks, I looked forward to today — a Sunday with no appointments. A day to assemble my book.

My morning began with my usual routine of switching on my iPhone.

There was one voicemail message.

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Call and response workshop

One of many ways to lead a group of performers is the so-called “call and response,” which is actually a compositional technique. The leader “calls” by singing and/or playing a musical phrase. The “other” (be it students, audience, or someone else) responds with another musical phrase.

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