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Tag Archives: The Sound of Music
The Sound of Recovery Music
Not your childhood van Trapps… The same friend who treated us to the SCA benefit performance “Snow White and the Seven Hos” invited us to see that show’s impresario Michael Roth’s latest romp “The Sound of Recovery Music”. Once … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Scope, LGBTQ Alphabet Soup, Live! On Stage
Tagged 12 steps, AA, addition, drag, Gay, LGBTQ, Maria, Michael Roth, parody, promises, Recovery, SCA, Seven Hos, Snow White, sobriety, The Sound of Music, triggering
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The Many Voices of Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon passed yesterday. She had a long, accomplished career as a classically trained singer on the concert and theater stage, but she is most famous for her leading contributions to some of the most famous musicals of Hollywood’s golden … Continue reading
NfaC Repost and Update – Mister Danny and His Most Sung Song
Today I repost one of my first and still most popular “teaching artist” posts, featuring the Pre-K standard “We’re Singing” (well, standard in my Pre-K curriculum). This year’s Pre-K classes at the Children’s School have taken to the tune with … Continue reading
NfaC Repost: The Sound of Music: Embracing the “Sugarcoated Lie”
This article was one of the first ever published on “Notes from a Composer” and quickly became one of the more popular during the first months of the blog’s existence. I thought I would repost it so newcomers to the … Continue reading
THE SOUND OF MUSIC: Embracing the “Sugarcoated Lie”
Ed and I were in Berlin* a couple years ago visiting my folks when we stumbled upon a German movie from the 1950s being shown on TV. We missed the first seconds of the credit sequence and so didn’t catch … Continue reading
Mister Danny and His Most Sung Song
I am a teaching artist. Which means that I freelance as a visiting music and drama teacher to conduct arts education projects in the classroom for limited time periods, usually 8-12 weeks, in schools all across the New York metropolitan … Continue reading
Posted in The Teaching Artist
Tagged arts, brooklyn, children, composer, education, Kindergarten, music, Pre-K, school, singing, teaching, The Beatles, The Pajama Game, The Sound of Music
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