Since Tim joined the group I have been made painfully aware of how much I don’t listen to music. Especially new and post-classical music. Whereas Tim has already been to 57 concerts, purchased 812 CDs, and downloaded 12,349 tracks of everything from Machaut to Eötvös this week, I’ve managed to pass the first guitar battle on “Hard” in Guitar Hero III. Granted, my iPod is filled with Top 40 and I love American Idol, so there is music in my life (I’m sure my Dad will beg to disagree). But actually sitting down to listen to something and reflect on it? Not something I usually do.
So when Linda Fairtile, librarian-extraordinaire at the UR School of Music, asked me to podcast with her about some new purchases she’d made for her library, I jumped at the chance. I mean, I like knowing about composers and what they’re doing, it’s just that I spend all day practicing and rehearsing and talking about new music — when I’m done, it’s hard to make more time to learn more about it. But I did, and had a great time in doing it. Linda’s posted this podcast on the UR website. Check it out, then check out the discs we talk about here, here, and here.
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You forgot to mention the six operas Tim heard this week, too, in three time zones.
Posted 15 Nov 2007 at 11:18 am ¶One of my favorite Oberlin memories of you is the day we went to the Co-op bookstore to buy the new Indigo Girls C.D. (it was Swamp Ophelia) after a quartet coaching. I think we listened and reflected a great deal.
Posted 18 Nov 2007 at 1:58 am ¶Wow, nobody’s ever called me “librarian-extraordinaire” before! Thanks, Matt. Recording that podcast was a blast.
Posted 20 Dec 2007 at 6:13 pm ¶I know how you feel. I have a friend that has over 1200 CD’s and he can sing just about every song ever made by heart.
Timm
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