tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118391712009-06-22T20:19:59.357-04:00Tom MyronJerry Bowlesnoreply@blogger.comBlogger198125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-39205105561138658992009-06-22T20:16:00.002-04:002009-06-22T20:19:59.364-04:00Today Is Your Birthday<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/10th%20bday%20s21.jpg"/><br />Vivian M. & Lily R., 6/22/09<br /><br />Vivian Myron is 10 today. Let's dance.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-3920510556113865899?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-63065342434970001222009-05-20T11:44:00.002-04:002009-05-20T11:51:20.537-04:00Nicholas Maw<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/Nick%20Maw.jpg"/><br /><br />He taught me well. He straightened me out big time. What I learned from him I use every day. Thank you Nick.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-6306534243497000122?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-49926232677281803822009-01-19T14:24:00.000-05:002009-01-19T14:25:25.718-05:00Treasure Unearth'd<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/purcell-rogers%20score%201.1111.jpg"/><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-4992623267728180382?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-83884688171964293552008-12-21T16:11:00.002-05:002008-12-21T16:23:39.122-05:00Personal Pantheon<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/pantheon2%20s21.jpg"/><br /><br />The tree is trimmed, Vivian & Co. are watching a movie & Jessica's taking a nap. I've put together a <a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=14317&l=ff5c3&id=1231451326" target="_blank">Personal Pantheon</a> over on Face Book. These are the writers whose work is always in front of me. See what you think.<br /><br /><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070420.html" target="_blank">Photo Credit</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-8388468817196429355?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-61473939264442443292008-12-19T15:16:00.003-05:002008-12-19T15:33:17.012-05:00A Grand Guy<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/Rob%20%26%20Tom%20s21.jpg"/><br /><b>With Rob Fisher at the12/18 rehearsal for the New York Pops 2008 Holiday Concert.</b><br />Photo by Arlo McKinnon<br /><br />Thanks to Rob & the New York Pops I got to write for <a href="http://www.marilynhornefdn.org/" target="_blank">Marilyn Horne</a> this month. Truly, Rob is a Grand Guy. I hope you can drop by & <a href="http://timessquare.com/Events/Music_Events/Marilyn_Horne_and_the_New_York_Pops/" target="_blank">check it out</a> if you're the the neighborhood.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-6147393926444244329?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-81127516932279072452008-12-16T01:15:00.006-05:002008-12-16T02:04:22.656-05:00Mind Your Manner(ism)s<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/ph1837.jpg"/><br /><b>Mannerism or killer backhand? Schoenberg puts some English on the ball, Los Angeles, 1930s</b><br /><br />Though originality is inseparable from personality, there exists also a kind of originality which does not derive from profound personality. Products of such artists are often distinguished by a unique appearance which resembles true originality. Certainly there was inventiveness at work when the striking changes of some subordinate elements were accomplished for the first time. Subsequently, used consciously, they achieved an aspect of novelty not derived profoundly from basic ideas. This is mannerism, not originality. The difference is that mannerism is originality in subordinate matters.<br /><br />There are many, and even respectable, artists whose success and reputation are based on this minor kind of originality. Unfortunately, the tendency to arouse interest by technical peculiarities, which are simply added to the nothingness of an idea, is now more frequent than it was in former times. The moral air of such products is rather for success and publicity than for enriching mankind's thoughts.<br /><br />-Arnold Schoenberg<br /><i> Criteria For the Evaluation of Music</i> (1946)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-8112751693227907245?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-2269913625315631802008-12-11T13:27:00.001-05:002008-12-11T13:30:42.345-05:00Sez WHO?<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/hammerboulez4.jpg"/><br /><br />Boulez is "a mannerist...a niche composer...a master with a very small hammer".<br /><br />-John Adams<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-226991362531563180?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-91477763688034383382008-11-18T13:08:00.003-05:002008-11-18T13:20:54.344-05:00Just a Terrific Painter<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/New%20England%20October%201957%20(B).jpg"/><br /><b>Grace Hartigan, New England October, 1957</b><br /><br />I have still the abstract expressionist logic, which is that you don't fuss with a painting once the emotion is over. I remember this painting of mine in the Whitney Museum called "Sweden," and that's dedicated to Franz Kline because Franz and I were very good friends and he used to tease me in various ways. I'm Irish but he says I look like a Swedish skier. And he came into the studio one time and I had this painting, and I was worried because I thought maybe the lower right hand corner wasn't up to the upper left hand corner, and I was complaining to Franz. He looked at me with disbelief and he said, "You mean you want to make it better?" I thought, "Oh, God, that is humiliating. I'm supposed to be some little shopper who's trying to get the best bargain in a grocery store." And I've never forgotten that, that once the impulse, once the emotion is over, that to fix it up is a rather humiliating plan because then it's just a patch-over and you're a shoemaker or something, not an artist.<br /><br />-Grace Hartigan (1922-2008)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/hartig79.htm" target="_blank">Complete 1979 Interview</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-9147776368803438338?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-57083309637520981952008-11-08T14:01:00.005-05:002008-11-08T14:23:27.699-05:00Broadway, baby.<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/Tom%20%26%20Linda.jpg"/><br /><b>With Linda Hart & the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall 11/7/08</b><br /><br />Last night at Carnegie Hall Linda Hart sang the ever lovin' spots off my arrangement of <i>Broadway Baby</i>. Let me tell all you cats & kittens- this woman is the real deal. The amazing Eric Stern led the New York Pops in a suite of New York-o-centric songs & selections by Jule Styne, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Gordon Jenkins & Lenny B. featuring arrangements by Ralph Burns, Michael Starobin, Don Sebesky, Jason Carr, Dick Lieb, Maestro Eric himself est moi. My kind of night, yes indeed.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-5708330963752098195?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-16391391154187213262008-10-22T01:44:00.001-04:002008-10-22T01:44:57.817-04:00Name That Tune 75<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/ntt%2075.jpg"/><br /><br />This is the seventy-fifth in a 100 part series.<br /><br />Name the composer: 50 Points<br />Name the work: 50 Points<br /><br />The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-1639139115418721326?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-86754623886766215962008-10-06T23:47:00.001-04:002008-10-06T23:50:17.998-04:00Name That Tune 74To make up for #73 this one's worth 200 points:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/ntt%2074.jpg"/><br /><br />This is the seventy-fourth in a 100 part series.<br /><br />Name the composer: <b>100</b> Points<br />Name the work: <b>100</b> Points<br /><br />The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-8675462388676621596?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-73357708893467795072008-09-15T15:20:00.008-04:002008-09-16T01:32:03.657-04:00I'm With the Band<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/s21%20lvdn%201.jpg"/><br /><b>Me & Olivier, Boston, MA September 14, 2008</b><br /><br />I hooked up in Boston this weekend with my good friend & un-indicted co-conspiritor <a href="http://www.leventdunord.com/english/pages/gr_olivier.html" target="_blank">Olivier Demers</a> to seal the deal on writing the orchestral arrangements for a whole evening's worth of <a href="http://www.leventdunord.com/" target="_blank">Le Vent du Nord</a> songs to be done Dec. 9 & 10, 2009 with the <a href="http://www.osq.org/en/accueil/index.asp" target="_blank">Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec</a>. The event will be videotaped by the CBC for both broadcast & DVD release.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/s21%20lvdn%202.jpg"/><br /><b>The mighty Rejean Brunet and the very funny, very gifted Nicolas Boulerice spending some Quality Time with their #1 U.S fan 9/14/08</b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-7335770889346779507?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-15652589479163210802008-08-30T22:53:00.001-04:002008-08-30T22:57:12.433-04:00Name That Tune 73<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/ntt%2073.jpg"/><br /><br />This is the seventy-third in a 100 part series.<br /><br />Name the composer: 50 Points<br />Name the work: 50 Points<br /><br />The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-1565258947916321080?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-60447145573315862442008-08-16T17:04:00.003-04:002008-08-16T17:13:52.173-04:00Bell Head<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/s21%20bell%20head%20complete.jpg"/><br />It's like bed head only louder.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-6044714557331586244?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-66275236974345506532008-07-12T19:02:00.002-04:002008-07-12T19:07:13.342-04:00Silence<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/cage%204.jpg"/><br /><br />Not his. Mine. I'm busy with some arranging projects. They're Broadway. They're N.Y. Pops. They're a blast. Maybe I'll even blog about them. But first I've gotta <i>do 'em</i>. Oh yeah. Later.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-6627523697434550653?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-60324400172358445562008-06-13T22:47:00.000-04:002008-06-13T22:48:32.218-04:00Name That Tune 72<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/ntt%2072.jpg"/><br /><br />This is the seventy-second in a 100 part series.<br /><br />Name the composer: 50 Points<br />Name the work: 50 Points<br /><br />The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.<br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-6032440017235844556?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-30226998623100942022008-06-07T23:26:00.002-04:002008-06-07T23:30:52.851-04:00Name That Tune 71<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/ntt%2071.jpg"/><br /><br />This is the seventy-first in a 100 part series.<br /><br />Name the composer: 50 Points<br />Name the work: 50 Points<br /><br />The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.<br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-3022699862310094202?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-19267379214281193862008-05-27T15:58:00.002-04:002008-05-27T16:14:46.203-04:00Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/SydneyPollack3.jpg"/><br /><br />Something in both his work & his off-stage persona spoke very deeply to me. In either setting he always managed to strike me as the type of grown-up I'd like to be. He still does.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-1926737921428119386?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-87841682102247037572008-05-24T12:15:00.006-04:002008-05-25T02:04:06.238-04:00I Was a Teenage Minimalist<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/counting%20streams%201%20SMALL.jpg"/><br /><b>25 years ago this month- the Time & Motion Project performing my <i>Counting Streams</i>. Bezanson Recital Hall, UMass, Amherst.</b> Clockwise from bottom left: Greg Tucker, T.M., Carolyn Oakley, Dave Barrett, Kurt Phinney<br /><br />Steve Reich was in the audience. He said, "You should come to New York after graduation." So I went to Washington DC & became a TV news cameraman instead. He also said, "Listen, you're not going to meet anyone else like Jessica. You should marry her." Our 20th anniversary is in September. This jibes with something my father (who took this photo) used to say quite a bit during this period. "You only pay attention about half the time."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-8784168210224703757?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-31720434154428245992008-05-20T11:24:00.002-04:002008-05-20T11:51:23.465-04:00Name That Tune 70<center><br /><img src="http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm282/Dirigo_photos/ntt70.jpg" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"><br><br><br /></center><br /><br />This is the seventieth in a 100 part series.<br /><br />Name the composer: 50 Points<br />Name the work: 50 Points<br /><br />The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.<br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-3172043415442824599?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-39979405740426896462008-05-16T01:41:00.002-04:002008-05-16T01:45:39.103-04:00Having A Coke With You<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YDLwivcpFe8&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YDLwivcpFe8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><br />Frank O´Hara in 1966<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-3997940574042689646?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-9645344824313638692008-04-25T09:57:00.002-04:002008-04-25T10:54:04.708-04:00Meme from Musical Assumptions<a href="http://musicalassumptions.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Elaine Fine</a> asked me to:<br /><br />1. Pick up the nearest book. <br />2. Open to page 123.<br />3. Find the fifth sentence.<br />4. Post the next three sentences.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/s21%20iphigenia.jpg"/><br /><br />Euripides, <i>Iphigenia at Aulis</i><br />translated by James Morwood<br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-964534482431363869?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-27148406261571173642008-04-21T20:54:00.002-04:002008-04-21T20:57:57.393-04:00Enter Spring<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/1st%20turtle%2008.jpg"/><br />Monday, April 21, 2008, 3:43 PM, EST. <a href="http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.557167" target="_blank">Enter Spring</a>.<br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-2714840626157117364?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-17654675433890623642008-04-21T20:53:00.001-04:002008-04-21T20:58:17.437-04:00Name That Tune 69<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/ntt69.jpg"/><br /><br />This is the sixty-ninth in a 100 part series.<br /><br />Name the composer: 50 Points<br />Name the work: 50 Points<br /><br />The winner(s) of each round will be the first person(s) with the correct answer(s) in each category. When the dust settles she or he with the highest combined score wins a prize.<br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-1765467543389062364?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11839171.post-63297328278182923402008-04-17T18:31:00.006-04:002008-04-18T01:54:59.945-04:00Revolutionary Road<img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/yates2.jpg"/><br /><i>Richard Yates in 1991</i><br /><br />There are very few works in any discipline that I love as fiercely as I do Richard Yates' <i>Revolutionary Road</i>. I read it every spring. Now it's going to be a <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2169033" target="_blank">"big movie"</a>. It was going to happen sooner or later. I hope they play it straight. I hope they don't screw it up.<br><br><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11839171-6329732827818292340?l=www.sequenza21.com%2Fmyron.html'/></div>Tom Myronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12580620632842488371noreply@blogger.com0