Posted in Computer, Ramblings, music, tour, weekend, tagged Eckhardt-Grammate, eee, hart house, ipod touch, music, squirrels, toronto, tour, university of toronto on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reasons to play the Hart House Great Hall:
- Excellent acoustics
- 9-foot concert grand piano
- Verses by either William Blake or Milton (I can’t really tell the difference) in medieval-looking script written around the walls
- Pictures of august-looking Canadians at strategic points, giving you something specific to look at whenever you need to visualize a person [...]
Posted in Ramblings, music, tour, tagged Guarded personal writing, music, Ramblings, tour on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a glowingly positive review from the Lake Superior News:
THUNDER BAY, ON, — November 4, 2008 — The husband and wife team of Benjamin (piano) and Kristen Mueller-Heaslip (soprano) presented a great concert of modern music at Tuesday’s Lumina Concert. Kristen Mueller-Heaslip is beginning to reap the benefits of many years of dedication hard work.
For [...]
Posted in Ramblings, music, tour, tagged Dogs, election, gus, music, opera, politics, singing, stravinsky, Thunder Bay, tour, travel on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, people, I am back again from a whirlwind trip to the lovely Thunder Bay, Ontario. Thunder Bay is really quite a nice smaller city on the northwest bank of Lake Superior. It’s a good sixteen-hour drive from Toronto, yet only a 30 minute drive from Minnesota. Weird. Anyway, we flew there yesterday, stayed with [...]
Posted in Dogs, Guarded personal writing, Ramblings, music, tour, weekend, tagged Dogs, from the past, Karl Mohr, Kingston, music, personal, Queen's, tour, travel on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My apologies for the lack of pictures in this entry. The camera was out of batteries and I didn’t think to get anyone else to take pictures.
Anyway, our jaunt to Kingston (Ontario, not Jamaica – about a 3 hour drive from Toronto) started rather later than it should have on Thursday, but was enlivened by [...]
Posted in Computer, Guarded personal writing, Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, Ramblings, Rave, music, rant, tour, weekend, tagged Charlottetown, competition, concert, cute, dog, Dogs, Eckhardt Grammatte, Halifax, music, Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra, photo, picture, recital, Sackville, speech, tour, travel, view, wolfville on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I considered buying an Ipod Touch instead. The EEE seemed more flexible and like a better deal. But…
a) it lost its ability to read memory cards at some point this week, and
b) it lost the ability to sign onto WordPress. Seriously. Every time I tried to sign in I got a weird error message. I [...]
Posted in Ramblings, music, tour, tagged Charlottetown, east coast, Halifax, music, Sackville, tour, travel on October 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Tips for musicians touring Eastern Canada:
- Keep your camera in your hand and turned on at ALL TIMES. You never know when you’re going to pass through a town called “Pugwash” or run across a 40-foot statue of Jesus or a giant, anthromorpomorphized blueberry.
- Bring extra copies of your music, in case your accompanist (ahem) [...]
