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Classical Convert

http://www.classicalconvert.com/blog/

The adventures of a classical music convert, with no prior relevant experience.

Added on: Jan 21st, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Ben
Listed in: Music Culture Entertainment
Tags: MP3 music classical music classical shostakovich

Recent Posts

Fluted Vocals

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 22:15 in music, technology, youtube

Here’s what you do if your flute playing skills exceed your vocal ones: Click here to view the embedded video. (For those who don’t spend hours of their leisure time shifting around ones and zeros, this chick is supposed to be singing alo...
CDs: in memoriam

Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 20:51 in music, technology

There are a few things I miss about CDs. They started up straight away. Just push play. It was just one mechanical action between you and the music, nothing to boot up and double-click on. It was much less of a physical divide when there is only a sp...
The oldest electronic drum machine

Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 21:33 in youtube

Here she blows: Click here to view the embedded video. Man, I love suff with cogs and pulleys and gears and stuff. It’s so fascinating watching little mechanical things moving sinusoidally. I used to be fascinated by street organs as a kid (and...
Please don’t turn off your cellphone

Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 21:43 in classical music

Ordinarily, cellphones get shut-up before a performance, but not here: Click here to view the embedded video. And here’s the making of: Click here to view the embedded video. Click here to view the embedded video. (via Gizmodo) ...
Suck juice from moose

Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 12:14 in youtube, classical music

When I was about 8 years old my dad bought me a copy of Carmina Burana on cassette tape (remember them?). It turns out I didn’t really like anything except for O Fortuna!, that staple of medieval action movie trailers. I do remember being excit...
Lake effect

Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 22:10 in non music

Taken while on a three o’ clock saunter around the lake: And taken on my usually rubbish phone camera! Apparently even its paltry pixel count can’t put up a fight when faced with such a delicious increase in daily maximum temperature, an...