by Kurt Knecht | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
As Jonah Sirota and I prepare for the first Mondegreen show on Sunday, I am reflecting again on what a great tool improvisation is for self-discovery. When you are improvising, you find out the real story on what your abilities are. The deficiencies in your aural...
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Whilst continuing my trek through some of the more obscure corners of the musical world, I found myself romping about this Summer with the incomparable Jonah Sirota and a digital tabla box that he ordered from India.Here is the amazing box. Inside of the box, there is...
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Earlier this year, Pete Eklund told me that he was planning to do a concert of different settings of Ps. 121 starting with the now Grammy nominated version by Jake Runestad. Pete asked for a setting in Hebrew that was pretty, accessible, and written for men’s...
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Each year, I do a little project with my budding young theorists to introduce them to music aesthetics and get them thinking about the important questions. We analyze a piece by Schubert or Brahms and then something by Gershwin or Cole Porter and then a popular song....
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I had the day off from teaching. I got to spend some time practicing, and I also treated myself to an organ lesson from Chris Marks. (Go to his website! Get him to come play a concert at your place. Buy his CDs.) I’ve been working on the BWV 544 for a...
by Kurt Knecht | Oct 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
This week, the publisher that first published my work and with whom I have had a relationship for about 15 years sold their business to a different publishing firm. Walton Music was purchased by GIA. Everyone was speculating that Hal Leonard would have purchased...
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