In Harmonium

Marc | March 2, 2010

My friend Jim Cassidy just sent me a link to this presentation.  Totally cool, and a fantastic way to show the power of music.

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Tags: Bobby McFerrin

Marc | January 26, 2010

The Medium is the Massage (no, that isn’t a spelling error), is the name of a rather famous work produced by Marshall McLuhan and Quenten Fiore in 1967.  It is, in many ways, a popularizing, as well as exemplar, version of McLuhan’s  major research focus on how media influences messages or, in it’s better known [...]

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Tags: Canadian Communications Tradition, Marshall McLuhan, Ottawa Bach Choir

Marc | November 26, 2009

I really don’t like rap at all, but one of my ex-students just sent me a link to an incredibly powerful rap video (hat tip to Lindsay Aranoff).  The video speaks for itself.  Do not watch it if you have a weak stomach.

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Tags: Holocaust, Music

Marc | October 18, 2009

I normally limit my posts here about music but, given the concert season, I thought I would post a few announcements about upcoming concerts.  The first two are in Ottawa, while the second two are national broadcasts which can be heard online.

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Marc | June 25, 2009

Last night, I caught the second half of The Music Instinct: Science & Song on PBS (yes, we get PBS in Canada).  Two sections really caught my attention – Oliver Sachs speaking on the Importance of Early Musical Training (1:22) and How music can change the brain (1:03).  What was most intriguing, for me at [...]

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Tags: Military Music, Symbols

Marc | June 15, 2009

What can I say about St. Paul”s and/or Notre Dame?  Well, for one thing, apparently we have been invited back again.  More importantly, they are truly amazing places to sing in.  Both are centres of their respective traditions and, even though I was raised in the tradition from St. Paul’s, I think I prefer Notre [...]

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Tags: Notre Dame, Ottawa Bach Choir, St. Paul's

Marc | June 15, 2009

Just a short note to let people know that the Ottawa Bach Choir’s last home concert will be airing on Tuesday, June 16, 8 pm on Michel Keable’s Soirée classiques, so don’t forget to mark it on your calendar (102.5 FM – Ottawa, 100.7 FM– Montreal, 90.3 FM – Toronto).  It is also available online [...]

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Marc | May 31, 2009

Right now, most of my attention and time is focused on music.  In particular, the Ottawa Bach Choir in which I sing 2nd Bass, is getting ready for our third European tour.  As with our two previous tours, we will be choir in residence at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig (Bach’s old church) and, let me [...]

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Marc | February 15, 2009

I just came across this little gem thanks to the Internet Scout Project. The Library of Congress has a series of podcasts (amongst other things) on Music and the Brain, with some really great talks on it.  Worth a look if you are interested in how music works.

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Marc | February 6, 2009

There are times when I get totally frustrated with computers.  I had this post all ready to go with just some final edits to make on the 1st when my laptop died and I was stuck without a keyboard.
I have been thinking a lot, lately, about how the map-territory paradox applies to cross-cultural (mis)communications. And [...]

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Tags: cross-cultural communications