Posts Tagged ‘singing’
the master speaks again
i have blogged about the gitanjali some time in the dim and distant past, but picked up my copy for once in a long, long while yesterday. for those not in the know, this is a collection of poems penned by nobel laureate rabindranath tagore, and it is absolute.raw.beauty.
the one below a little more than [...]
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Tags: gitanjali, rabindranath tagore, singing
when old friends become new ones
i think i should just stop blogging and direct you over to dr. boli’s. i love randomness, and he is really just about the most random person i know whom i don’t (did you get that?) but i think you have to be tarred, at least slightly, with some randomness too, if you want to [...]
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Tags: dr boli, idealism, japanese, old friends, pragmatism, singaporeans, singing
once upon a time
i found a shortcut to shibuya on my daily walk today, and felt rather embarrassed that instead of taking a direct, straight road there, i had previously always tried to follow the railway tracks laboriously, roving round and round the shinsen area somewhat uncertainly because the tracks disappear underground there. it is a reflection of [...]
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Tags: karoke, singing
some music talk
here’s a nugget that i heard at a choral workshop i was attending today. the clinician (japanese composer and conductor, ko matsushita) applied an interesting analogy to explain the importance of the tonic (doh) and the dominant (soh). the tonic, he said, is the father of the family – stable, head of the household, and [...]
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i’m scared
because singing makes me happy in a way that nothing else in the world can.
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Tags: singing
