New flute piece!

April 27th was a night of new flute music at the University of Oregon thanks to the collaborations between Molly Barth‘s flute studio and the Oregon Composer’s Forum. Back in December of 2008, each composer was assigned a flutist based on compositional style and various other musical factors. I had the pleasure of working with Kelly Mullins, a sophomore music education major. The result of our collaboration together can be heard at my streaming music website, ubuntuMusic. The piece is basically a result of listening to too much 20th-century French music, mostly Poulenc. Overall, I am pleased with our performance, however, some of the audience members decided to bring in their young children. This made quite a lot of noise in the recording and were very distracting to our performance; sadly they were asked to leave after our piece was performed. None the less, ENJOY!

Which love style are you….?

The subject today on one of my favorite podcasts “Gaily Forward” was “Styles of Love.” Originally developed by John Lee (a Canadian), he based six theories of love or “colors” of love, based on Greek mythological figures.

1. Eros-a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love. (the “GOD DAMN” relationship!)

2. Ludus-a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest. (Samantha from Sex and the City or Bryan from Queer as Folk)

3. Storge-an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity (the stereotypical high school sweethearts)

4. Pragma-love that is driven by the head, not the heart; undemonstrative. (Miranda from Sex and the City)

5. Mania-Highly volatile love; obsessionl fueled by low self-esteem (Harvey Milk’s second BF…yikes!)

6. Agape-selfless altruistic lovel spiritual; motherly love (God)

So, I’m curious on which one/s you think you might most identify with…

Lessons from Buddha

Composition lessons continued…

1. You life isn’t static, why would your music be?

2. It’s about less emphasis on the end goal and more about emphasis on the process.

3. Part of our grace from God is in our talents; lets pay back God.