Venting
VENTING
Feeling frustrated with being a musician?
Venting page is designed for musicians to post articles completely anonymously about being a music teacher and a performer. As musicians we all run into problems with our supervisors, teachers, conductors, music directors, students, or student’s parents. Sometimes these situations can be very frustrating and hard to resolve. The Venting section of Music Master Lab is a safe place to post your grievances completely anonymously. FaceBook and other social media is not a safe place to post your frustrations. The people who you are writing about on social media might read your post and get you in trouble. Music Master Lab will not collect any of your information.
Use the Venting page as a learning experience as well. Other musicians are dealing with the same problems as you are. You might be able to find a solution or provide guidance to other musicians. Have fun reading and posting!
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regional youth orchestras help fight music education inequality
The pursuit of the dream of classical music is not an equal playing field. My recent study looked at the inequalities rural and regional young
Free classical music | The Most Musical Music
Submitted by jsdubois015 on Wed, 04/28/2010 – 15:32 I’m sitting here listening to the Bach suites for cello performed by one of the greats, Mstislav
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I’m going to a classical music concert for the first time. What should I know?
Classical music is surprisingly controversial. For some, it’s a pinnacle of cultural achievement. For others it perpetuates class inequality and upholds “white middle class social
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Musicologist: Beethoven and Mozart’s music is ‘not bad, it’s decent’ – SlippediscSlippedisc
norman lebrecht November 16, 2022 The racial-theory New York musicologist Philip Ewell is on the prowl again. He has just been given a glowing report
Free classical music | The Power of Art
Submitted by jsdubois015 on Sun, 05/02/2010 – 10:02 I recently had a rather interesting conversation with a friend of mine. She is currently going through
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Handel’s Messiah, Royal Albert Hall
Handel’s Messiah, Royal Albert Hall Handel’s Messiah, Royal Albert Hall Joe Lloyd George Frideric Handel may have embraced England, but England embraced his music. MessiahAn
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John Williams, 90 today, is our greatest living composer
John Williams, the man who changed the way we hear the movies, turns 90 today. As the key Hollywood composer during the blockbuster era of
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What is Gregorian chant? | Classical Music
What is Gregorian chant? Gregorian chant is a sacred hymn in Latin (and occasionally Greek) that has been used in the Roman Catholic Church for
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Free download: Weill, Symphony No.2, III: Allegro Vivace
This week’s free download is the third activity; Allegro Vivas, From Kurt Weill’s Dark and Brooding Second Symphony As a soloist in the concert. It’s
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TwoSet Violin mark 4m YouTube subscribers with free online concert
Australia’s most famous classical music violin duo TwoSet Violin A free live concert will be released on YouTube in November 2022. The duo will perform
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What did Maurice Ravel do during World War 1?
Sometimes an urgent deadline is needed to get the creative juices flowing. In the year Ravel worked on the piano trio for four months in
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BBC Proms theme tune: who wrote it and what is it?
That rolling timpani. Those shiny flutes. We all recognize that tune and what it represents. Who wrote the BBC Proms theme song? The current theme
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Best floorstanding speakers to buy
Upstairs speakers dominate most living rooms, but they sound exceptional on a large soundstage. Cheap models can be surprisingly loud, but if design corners are
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Who wrote the theme tune for ‘Neighbours’? And what music is used in the show today?
All good things come to an end, and after 37 years on Australia’s longest-running drama series, Neighbors, waving peace. In 1985 (even the Queen Mother
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Mahan Esfahani becomes youngest ever recipient of Wigmore Medal
38-year-old Iranian-American harpist Mahan Esfahani In the year Since his inauguration in 2007 – he has become the youngest recipient of the Wigmore Medal –
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Chip Minemyer | Still listening to the music | News
Tom Johnston In 1971, when he wrote the band’s first major hit, he said he was showing “some degree of utopian view of the world.”
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‘He took everything we had:’ investors claim Orlando music producer used romance to take their money
Orlando, Fla. – The head of the Orlando Music Festival says some investors who have lost millions of dollars have been tricked into dating. James
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The Recorder – Porch Festival bringing music to Shelburne Falls
Two events that illustrate why the region is known for its arts show that the streets of the village are bathed in music this summer.
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London Festival of Baroque Music, St John’s Smith Square
London Baroque Music Festival, St. John Smith Square London Baroque Music Festival, St. John Smith Square Claudia Prechard Baroque Pride and Floating is a tonic
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Tribute to Marcel Proust, Institut Français
Honor to Marcel Prost, French Institute Honor to Marcel Prost, French Institute Claudia Prechard Music brought memories, and the master of the power of memory
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2Cellos farewell, OVO Arena Wembley
2Celos Farewell, OVO Arena Wembley 2Celos Farewell, OVO Arena Wembley Claudia Prechard Luke Schulich’s and HAUSER’s play has turned many spider webs into classical music.
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Peppa Pig: My First Concert
The cheek of the moment is a small creature, and she is now on a musical adventure. Peppa Pig – joined by Mummy Pig, Daddy
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Classical Music, Ableism & Accommodations
American violinist Rachel Barton Pine has announced that she will play as a solo player in the future. Pine In 1994, she suffered a long-term
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Origin concerts, City of London Sinfonia
Home Concerts, London Symphony Home Concerts, London Symphony Claudia Prechard One of London’s most exciting orchestras never fails. For 50 years since its inception, the
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Performing Ligeti’s “Hungarian Rock” on a piano.
 The undisputed musical value and great source for technical development within Gyorgy Ligeti’s pieces for harpsichord make them a great addition to the repertoire.
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The Relationship Between Mental and Physical Practice
While I do Mental work and Emotional work, I still do physical practice. Everybody will require a different amount of basic, fundamental physical work. And
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Surviving as a freelance musicians in New York City during COVID19
As the COVID19 Pandemic continues to unfold, the world of freelancing has had to quickly adjust! Added precautions need to be put into place and
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Picking the best music teacher
I grew up in the soviet music education tradition where you were supposed to take lessons only with your teacher and not play for other
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Orchestral Audition Advice
Each audition you take offers an opportunity for learning and growth. While you do not have control over the outcome of an audition, you do
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Practice Methods for Orchestral Auditions.
On average, a good practice session for me will be about three to four hours of work, broken up in chunks. I spend about 45
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Career During and After College
Picking the right teacher and school of music: When looking for a school to study music, I recommend picking the school with the teacher you’d
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The Fallacy of Intent in Composition
Performers often ask me about intent and composition. How important is it to know the composer’s original intent for a specific idea or piece? My
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Creating a Great Composition from Zero
Composition is a kind of freedom. A line from the film Amadeus (written by Peter Schaffer, directed by Milos Forman, 1984) has always resonated with
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Historic Pianos of the Great Composers
In his late years, pianist and conductor Anton Rubinstein was asked if composers like Mozart and Beethoven would have been happier if they had access
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Mental and Emotional Practice as a Way of Extending Your Practice Efficiency
My approach to mental practicing began during a personal crisis. Right after school, I went to Paris, thinking I would be there for a year
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What Privileging the Learning Process Looks Like in the Practice Room.
How much a person should practice depends on their personal, physical needs. Some people don’t require much practice, and they were just born like that.