Sunday, April 29, 2007
Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and artist, dies.
Rostropovich 病逝, 享年80. What a blue April. :(
Rococo Variation part I
Rococo Variation part II
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Island Etude
I still want to say something.
:)
Something as crazy but based on my own.
整個四月, 一直都很悶, 很悶. 太多讓人down 的事了.
倒是給了鬱悶的四月午後打了一針強心劑.
I'm still young. I'm in my 20s with 60s eye.
http://www.truemovie.com/2007moviedata/IslandEtude.htm
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
busy month
這個月第三次Tornado Warning. 目前在左下角county.
-- taking shelter;
-- avoid window area(as far as your can; dont' worry to open them. that doesn't help)
-- go to the basement or lowest part of your building;
-- get flash and documents
要記得.
還好已經回家了. 但是我家上面就是屋頂啊啊啊啊........
campus 淹水就算了,
趕在拜託別touch down 呀~~~~
-- taking shelter;
-- avoid window area(as far as your can; dont' worry to open them. that doesn't help)
-- go to the basement or lowest part of your building;
-- get flash and documents
要記得.
還好已經回家了. 但是我家上面就是屋頂啊啊啊啊........
campus 淹水就算了,
趕在拜託別touch down 呀~~~~
Saturday, April 21, 2007
A Student’s Letter Home
A Student’s Letter Home
by Bryan Schamus
April 20, 2007
To my loving family and friends:
We continue to heal in Blacksburg. I look at the calendar and I see it's only been four days. It feels like months.
The outreach has been tremendous, especially at the Newman Community, Tech's Catholic Campus Ministry. We got the word out that we were providing a sanctuary for the students to come hang out. Take a look at our website for everything we are currently offering. (www.catholic.org.vt.edu) We continue to receive food, drinks, priests, counselors and people in need all the time.
We have eight priests in residence right now and they take shifts to be in the house for whomever might need help. Some people come in and just need to watch a movie. Some need to talk to a priest. Others just need a big hug.
The Bishop of Richmond is traveling to Blacksburg to say Mass on Sunday.
The convocation on Tuesday was the most moving event I've seen, and might ever see, in my life. Put all politics and personal opinion aside, President Bush was in our basketball arena to be with the Hokie Nation. He spoke from the heart and brought tears to many. Governor Kaine was “right on" with his speech as well, as he described his experience with the Hokie Nation. The ceremony ended with a now famous poem from world renowned poet and English professor here at Tech, Nikki Giovanni. This was her poem:
We are Virginia Tech.
We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning.
We are Virginia Tech.
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
We are Virginia Tech.
We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.
We are Virginia Tech.
The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds.
We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be.
We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness.
We are the Hokies.
We will prevail.
We will prevail.
We will prevail.
We are Virginia Tech.
The crowd of 12,000, with 20,000 watching in the football stadium on the video screen, responded with resounding cheers and applause which led to the most spirit-filled "LET'S GO HOKIES" chant ever to fill Cassell Coliseum.
It was my first Hokie cheer ever. Since first coming to Tech, I've worked at every home football and basketball game in a "professional" capacity. I've never cheered with my fellow Hokies. I always dreamed about one day being able to cheer from the stands but I never wanted it to be like this. It was bittersweet. But I will always remember it. LET'S GO HOKIES!!!!!
We hug everyone we see. There is so much good happening here right now. But I would give anything to go to class – to listen, take notes, without a worry in the world.
My good friend Theresa lost one of her best friends in one of the classrooms in Norris Hall. I can't even imagine. When she walked out for the ceremony next to President Bush, I didn't even know what to think.
Today I was interviewed by "Religion and Ethics", a television show on PBS.
Check your local listings to see when it airs, as it is different everywhere. They also filmed me singing Dona Nobis Pacem with some of my Newman singers.
Never, not three years ago or three days ago, could I have imagined what 4/16/07 would bring us. But in the aftermath of this tragedy, I'm reminded of all the reasons why I love with this place with all my heart. There is no other place on the face of the earth that could have dealt with such a loss in the way we have. As I told PBS today, when we gathered on the drillfield with candles and chanted, "LET'S GO---HOKIES", that was our prayer. Our ecumenical prayer as a united Hokie Nation. Thank you, Frank and Lisa McGrail for dragging me to Blacksburg three years ago. This is where I needed to be.
It will take many more days and months to heal. But I know all of you are praying and thinking of us. I apologize for not being able to return every phone call and e-mail, but please know that I read and listen to every one of them and they mean so, so much.
And I really hope that someday before I graduate, those of you that I'm writing to many miles away, can visit this campus and see what it's like without the world watching. Without the blood. Without the crime scene tape.
And without the sadness.
I am so proud to be a Hokie and I hope you are too. You all are Hokies. Wear your maroon and orange on Friday!
Please, please take a look at who this was sent to and send it on to others I may have forgotten or to those who would enjoy reading it. It's 1:30 a.m. and I'm running on fumes, so I am bound to forget people.
Keep the e-mails and calls coming and, of course, your prayers. I love you all.
HOKIE HOKIE HOKIE HI TECH TECH VPI SOLAREX, SOLARAH POLYTECH, VIRGINIA RAY, RAH, VPI TEAM TEAM TEAM
Peace and goodnight,
Bryan
http://www.planetblacksburg.com/2007/04/a_students_letter_home.php
by Bryan Schamus
April 20, 2007
To my loving family and friends:
We continue to heal in Blacksburg. I look at the calendar and I see it's only been four days. It feels like months.
The outreach has been tremendous, especially at the Newman Community, Tech's Catholic Campus Ministry. We got the word out that we were providing a sanctuary for the students to come hang out. Take a look at our website for everything we are currently offering. (www.catholic.org.vt.edu) We continue to receive food, drinks, priests, counselors and people in need all the time.
We have eight priests in residence right now and they take shifts to be in the house for whomever might need help. Some people come in and just need to watch a movie. Some need to talk to a priest. Others just need a big hug.
The Bishop of Richmond is traveling to Blacksburg to say Mass on Sunday.
The convocation on Tuesday was the most moving event I've seen, and might ever see, in my life. Put all politics and personal opinion aside, President Bush was in our basketball arena to be with the Hokie Nation. He spoke from the heart and brought tears to many. Governor Kaine was “right on" with his speech as well, as he described his experience with the Hokie Nation. The ceremony ended with a now famous poem from world renowned poet and English professor here at Tech, Nikki Giovanni. This was her poem:
We are Virginia Tech.
We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning.
We are Virginia Tech.
We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.
We are Virginia Tech.
We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachian infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.
We are Virginia Tech.
The Hokie Nation embraces our own and reaches out with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds.
We are strong, and brave, and innocent, and unafraid. We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be.
We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness.
We are the Hokies.
We will prevail.
We will prevail.
We will prevail.
We are Virginia Tech.
The crowd of 12,000, with 20,000 watching in the football stadium on the video screen, responded with resounding cheers and applause which led to the most spirit-filled "LET'S GO HOKIES" chant ever to fill Cassell Coliseum.
It was my first Hokie cheer ever. Since first coming to Tech, I've worked at every home football and basketball game in a "professional" capacity. I've never cheered with my fellow Hokies. I always dreamed about one day being able to cheer from the stands but I never wanted it to be like this. It was bittersweet. But I will always remember it. LET'S GO HOKIES!!!!!
We hug everyone we see. There is so much good happening here right now. But I would give anything to go to class – to listen, take notes, without a worry in the world.
My good friend Theresa lost one of her best friends in one of the classrooms in Norris Hall. I can't even imagine. When she walked out for the ceremony next to President Bush, I didn't even know what to think.
Today I was interviewed by "Religion and Ethics", a television show on PBS.
Check your local listings to see when it airs, as it is different everywhere. They also filmed me singing Dona Nobis Pacem with some of my Newman singers.
Never, not three years ago or three days ago, could I have imagined what 4/16/07 would bring us. But in the aftermath of this tragedy, I'm reminded of all the reasons why I love with this place with all my heart. There is no other place on the face of the earth that could have dealt with such a loss in the way we have. As I told PBS today, when we gathered on the drillfield with candles and chanted, "LET'S GO---HOKIES", that was our prayer. Our ecumenical prayer as a united Hokie Nation. Thank you, Frank and Lisa McGrail for dragging me to Blacksburg three years ago. This is where I needed to be.
It will take many more days and months to heal. But I know all of you are praying and thinking of us. I apologize for not being able to return every phone call and e-mail, but please know that I read and listen to every one of them and they mean so, so much.
And I really hope that someday before I graduate, those of you that I'm writing to many miles away, can visit this campus and see what it's like without the world watching. Without the blood. Without the crime scene tape.
And without the sadness.
I am so proud to be a Hokie and I hope you are too. You all are Hokies. Wear your maroon and orange on Friday!
Please, please take a look at who this was sent to and send it on to others I may have forgotten or to those who would enjoy reading it. It's 1:30 a.m. and I'm running on fumes, so I am bound to forget people.
Keep the e-mails and calls coming and, of course, your prayers. I love you all.
HOKIE HOKIE HOKIE HI TECH TECH VPI SOLAREX, SOLARAH POLYTECH, VIRGINIA RAY, RAH, VPI TEAM TEAM TEAM
Peace and goodnight,
Bryan
http://www.planetblacksburg.com/2007/04/a_students_letter_home.php
Friday, April 06, 2007
I will survive!
這兩個人也蠻有意思的. 不能否認的是, 古典音樂的市場很早就轉型了. 一邊轉圈圈跳舞兼彈琴看起來是小意思, 轉呼拉圈兼雜耍還要比人家有創意.
有趣的是, 仔細看, 人家可是真有底子的. 看得出來是自己編曲的idea, 但是當Chopin Etude 繞出來時,整個讓我笑到不行. 妙呆了. XDDDDDD
倒是想到還蠻多這種reorgnized Chopin Etude. 像是這傢伙, 阿格麗希的學生
Sergio Timepo's Studies On Chopin Etudes
另一段有意思的是 Rachmaninoff had a big hand. 目前link被拿掉了, 不然也是休閒娛樂搞笑最佳片段. (題外話. 仔細一看, 原來"authentic" 構想者發聲, 現在有智慧財產權的問題. well, 撇開這些不談, 倒是蠻同意它下面commen中的一句話: " Because, as a creative performer, ideas are everything.")
難怪他們的網站要叫 a little nightmare music...XD
還真是音樂老師的夢魘啊~~
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