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Last week, I was honestly feeling like I was in a bit of a rut with my research project here in Campos. I felt like I had observed so many rehears...
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Jony William (left) and myself with our Symphonic Festival shirts on I finally got to interview Jony William, the founder and director of Orques...
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An advanced oboe student giving a lesson outside I was able to sit down last week with Luis Mauricio Carneiro , who is co-founder of Orquestra...
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View from my apartment in Campos With this post, I'll be caught up now here on the blog and back to a once-a-week posting routine. I'm combinin...
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Campos: my city, my love. Campos dos Goytacazes (or just "Campos" for short, as most people call it), where I am spending the next two months ...
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I've fallen behind on my goal to put up a new blog post each week, thanks to difficulties finding an apartment and getting internet access in it he...
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This week I made 3 visits to nucleos of A ção Social Pela Música (Social Action through Music-ASM) here in Rio. Two to the Complexo da Tijuca nu...
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View of Dona Marta from the Botafogo neighborhood After making my first ever all Portuguese-language phone call to a stranger (I was quite proud...
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This week, with pretty much all the bureaucratic things over with, I was finally able to get out and hear some good Brazilian music! Last week I d...
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Today marks two weeks in Brazil. Most of this past week was spent dealing with bureaucratic things, which are a doozy in this country. I'll leave...
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Once week ago today, I arrived in South America for the first time. I was worried that my flight from Boston was going to be cancelled or delayed ...
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17 months after applying for the Fulbright Scholarship, and 11 months after learning that I received one, I am finally heading to Brazil! This tim...
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I have met a lot of composers in my life, and many of them I can call my friends. Inevitably, I've heard many of their own ways, methods and routi...
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I've spent the last two months in Massillon, Ohio staying with my wife Diane and her family before moving to the UK where Diane has gotten a job as...
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In my experience, there exists a bit of a bias in the world of contemporary classical music towards "serious" works. In fact, plenty of people ref...
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In addition to working as a freelance musician, I've spent part of the past year since finishing graduate school as a substitute teacher at the mid...
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Last week, I made my first trip to Carnegie Hall in New York City. I didn't get there through "practice, practice, practice," like the saying goes...
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I'd brought Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" with me to my residency at Playa back in January (actually it was a collection of all his poems plus...
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(Continued from Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ) The only other big hurdle was getting my language skills evaluated. If I was still in Colorado ...
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(Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 ) But which country of the 25 odd ones would I choose pursue? Brazil stood out to me for several reasons: 1...
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