It’s true: There’s an app for pretty much everything. In this case, the app is Music Theory Pro, which combines aspects of music theory with ear training in an easy-to-use format.
Tag: 10.19.10
Toni Morrison on These Tempestuous Times
“I am going to be 80 next year, I have to tell you. I started out with Roosevelt. So I know that these are not these outrageously difficult times. We didn’t have health care when I was born. But what happened then, which is not as true now, is that people were helpful to one another.”
Eureka, I’ve Done It! (Almost Never Happens)
“Although the eureka moment is such a cliche, big new ideas almost never get born like that. Innovation is one of those cases where the defining image, all the rhetoric and all the assumptions about how it happens, turn out to be completely backward.”
Composer David Lang: “I Don’t Really Like the Idea of Writing for Dance”
“What dance needs from music is not very interesting to me. … You just saw three dance pieces of mine, and I didn’t choose the choreographers. They chose me. And at the Morphoses one, they didn’t even choose me – they were assigned me. So they’re not my choreographers; I didn’t choose to work for them.”
Can Selfless Altruism Really Exist?
“It’s undeniable that people sometimes act in a way that benefits others, but it may seem that they always get something in return – at the very least, the satisfaction of having their desire to help fulfilled. Students in introductory philosophy courses torture their professors with this reasoning. And its logic can seem inexorable.”
Great Architecture In Slums
“Though the displayed projects are tiny forays into massive problems, they raise sticky questions. Do they bandage slums rather than eliminate them? Do such projects work in the long term, and are they replicable?”
How Unbiased Are Orchestral Auditions, Really?
Peter Dobrin: “When orchestral musicians feign perplexity on the question of why orchestras aren’t more diverse – but we use audition screens! – the disingenuousness is insulting. But the orchestra regularly asks us to accept an equally ludicrous proposition: that when auditions draw hundreds of aspirants, the most qualified musician just happens to be related to someone already in the organization.”
Twyla’s Sinatra Musical Headed to Vegas (With a Third Title)
“First it was called Come Fly With Me. Then it changed to Come Fly Away. It’s [sic] latest title is Sinatra Dance with Me. Whatever its name, Twyla Tharp’s musical-dance celebration of Frank Sinatra … is set to open at the Wynn Las Vegas on Dec. 11 for a limited run.”
Pittsburgh Symphony Sees Light at End of Financial Tunnel
“The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra faced some unexpected dissonance off the stage last year, but its leaders think the orchestra is poised to emerge from the economic ritardando it has been in since 2008.”
Israelis Riled by Sculpture of Comatose Ariel Sharon
“Ariel Sharon, one of Israel’s most controversial and long-standing political and military leaders, has been depicted in a life-size sculpture as he is – more than four years after being felled by a massive stroke – comatose in a hospital bed.”