by Kurt Knecht | Mar 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m playing this weekend for my friend Carlos Brown on his graduate conducting recital. Carlos is a young conductor with a tremendous amount of promise and boundless energy. One of the works on his program is the orchestral version of Rosephayne Powell’s...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Occasionally students complain about homework. I’m sure that I did. I’m not very sure where I fit into the spectrum on workload for students. I simply attempt to give them enough exercise to accomplish the tasks that they need to achieve. When I used to...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
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by Kurt Knecht | Feb 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 25, 2014 | Car, Illustration, Uncategorized
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by Kurt Knecht | Feb 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Through some recent conversations, some interesting aesthetic ideas have come up. I was continuing a conversation with my friend Chris today and remembered that I have written on the subject using Buber’s dialogical hermeneutic as a basis for interpretation....
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am teaching a class in post tonal theory right now. I have always found that the easiest way to identify the prime for of the set by interval. What some books call SIA (successive interval array) and some call AIS (adjacent interval series) is a quick and easy way...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Star Spangled Banner is one of if not the worst national anthem ever for several reasons. Most people know this intuitively, but they can’t articulate it very well. Unless, of course, they’ve been in one of my classes where they got me to go on my...
by Kurt Knecht | Feb 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
It occurred to me this week that one of the greatest gifts that my undergraduate education afforded me was the space to develop. I mean that quite literally. It was especially true during my junior and senior year.There was an old theatre on the campus that had been...
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