by Kurt Knecht | Dec 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
I haven’t been doing a personal blog in a while, but I thought I would collect the results of week 1 in a single place in case you missed any.O Christmas Tree in the style of Darius MilhaudNext was Andrea Ramsey’s suggestion of The Little Drummer Boy in...
by Kurt Knecht | May 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
I have a diverse group of friends which includes some conservatives, some liberals, some moderates, some capitalists, some Marxists, some distributivists, some anarchists, some Christians, some atheists, some Jews, at least one Sikh, a Hari Krishna, and I think there...
by Kurt Knecht | May 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
I guess there is a thing now where you pick a youtube video and send it to me for my commentary. Timothy Tharaldson sent in this one. This is wrong-headed for several reasons, so it’s hard to know where to start. He says so little in so much time, that it is...
by Kurt Knecht | Apr 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
I updated the sacred a cappella choral list I made the other day to include the music of Frank LaRocca. I wanted to do a separate post about it because I’m so excited to have him onboard at MusicSpoke. I seriously love his music. It’s the kind...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
One of our British MusicSpoke composers, Matthew Cann, asked for a list of the a cappella sacred choral music we now have available on MusicSpoke.It’s wonderful just to use the site to listen to some of this fabulous music. It’s even better to buy it and...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Some of my composition students are currently in Gretchen Foley’s fiercely graded 18th century counterpoint class. She asked me if I would pull out my final project and give her a copy. I had a little bit of practice time on Spring Break.I took the NPR...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
I had another opportunity to find great musical education happening this week. This time, to my great delight, it was my oldest son Zach. He is the executive director of the Academy of Rock here in Lincoln, and I had the chance to watch him work with some middle...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
It appears that the dreaded election season is already upon us. I’m always taken aback a little when I hear politicians playing like they are theologians — funny, I don’t have the same problem when musicians do it.In any case, I find it odd when people...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Apparently tired of meme-ing the cat, Jennifer has turned her sights on me and unleashed the fury of the internet on my image. We were in Kansas City last summer visiting a start-up incubator that had a green screen.I’m not sure exactly what that pose is...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
My wife’s business has a customer whose name is Lincoln. That’s funny because he lives in Lincoln. If I knew two Lincolns, and one lived in Omaha, I would call this one the Lincoln Lincoln.If he drove a certain kind of car, I would say, “Look, there...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Well, it’s been a while since I have had a chance to write about new music that I’ve found. Last week, I got to hang out at ACDA 2015 in Salt Lake City. If you didn’t know, that Great Salt Lake is filled with Sea Monkeys.On our first night, Jenn and...
by Kurt Knecht | Mar 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Normally, choir directors tell me that when they attend a reading session, they feel lucky to find one usable piece of music. It’s a gold mine when they find two usable pieces from a session.After the MusicSpoke reading session at the National ACDA...
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