http://briansacawa.com/blog A blog by saxophonist Brian Sacawa Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:31:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More musical goodness this week at Sound Directions: Improvisers Anonymous Wait, But Is Renée Fleming Gonna Ruin It For Everyone By Making Us Look Like Sellouts? 10 Important Questions About Renée Fleming's New Indie Album Design Your Own Renée Fleming Indie Album Cover And Win A $50 American Apparel Gift Card My Ignite Baltimore Talk, ... http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/03/07/sound-directions-digest-3-7-10/ Your weekly digest of music goodness from my Sound Directions blog: WTF Is That Noise?! Game Time: A Cheat Sheet for John Zorn's "Cobra" Improvisation and Fabrication Pull Quote: Philip Ball — The Beatles' Urgent Request for Use of Stockhausen's Mug http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/02/28/sound-directions-digest-2-28-10/ This week's roundup of music-related fun at Sound Directions: Pull Quote: Anthony Tommasini — What Alanis Morrisette Can Teach Classical Musicians Fuck Nico Muhly: Is New Music Saving Opera Or Scandalizing It? Lady Gaga Mines Bach's Catalog to Write Her Hits Do Classical Music Lovers Have to Be Old and Staid? Pull Quote: Proper Discord — http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/02/21/sound-directions-digest-2-21-10/ Here's a roundup of the my posts for the week over at Sound Directions: Name That Tune. Must We? Get Your Head in the Game and Move Product Like Jay-Z Poop To Not Poop Ratios A Delicious Look at Alex Ross's Doom Graph Post Pull Quote: Proper Discord Five Year Old Conducts The Rite of Spring http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/02/13/1509/ New project alert: I'm writing the Sound Directions blog for the Baltimore Sun's Charm City Current site. http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/02/08/sound-directions-launches/ Here are some of my contributions to the latest internet meme. http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/02/07/snookie-shop-sunday/ This is hysterical. Man, I love Jon Hamm. http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/02/02/sergio/ 3-hour ride in the brisk January air bookended with two 30-min intervals. http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/01/27/this-is-the-kind-of-pain-i-like/ Last Wednesday Erik and I presented our arrangement of Stockhausen's Tierkreis. The performance went extremely well and I think we were both very pleased with the outcome. In many ways it was a new experience for me when I place it in the continuum of my musical ... http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/01/24/zodiac-wrap/ http://briansacawa.com/blog/2010/01/24/who-are-the-hot-baltimore-socialites/