by Kurt Knecht | Oct 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
I won two free tickets to the orchestra by finding a stuffed turtle hidden under a sculpture inspired by Monet’s Water Lilies.Coincidentally, this happened only a week after Jennifer had made one of her infamous declarations. In an almost unimaginable confluence...
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
When you are a professional musician, you sometimes dream about the day that your son will come up to you and say, “Papa, what I really want is a horn.” You hope that he might want a saxophone. You pray that he doesn’t have the personality that would ask...
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have been imagining what it might be like if classical musicians got a post game concert interview and could respond like athletes. Here is how I imagine it would go.Erin Andrews: That was quite a performance!Arthur Rubenstein: I just want to give all the glory...
by Kurt Knecht | Sep 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
I may be kicking a hornets nest, but a thought occurred to me this week. I’m teaching a graduate seminar in Baroque Performance Practice, and I’m delighted to report that students are arguing away about the intentional fallacy, the relationship of the...
by Kurt Knecht | Sep 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
No matter how good you are at your job, you’re probably not as good at Thomas Weelkes. Weelkes was an English organist/composer in the late 16th and early 17th century. In 1616 he was reported as”noted and famed for a comon drunckard (sic) and notorious...
by Kurt Knecht | Sep 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’ve been so busy with MusicSpoke and the beginning of the semester that I haven’t had time to blog in a while. I did, however, finally receive a packet of much overdue evaluations of the students at Nebraska Wesleyan from the Fall semester today. I always...
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