A Photo Finalist!
14 May, 2008 - 10:40 — HornCologneThe excellent folks over at Schmap guides, producers of very interesting interactive travel guides both online and as a desktop app, have shortlisted one of my photos for the next edition of their guide to Cologne! Yay my camera! Yay my shutter finger!
Even if it doesn't make the final editorial cut, I am flattered. I'm further inspired to keep snapping and posting.
Thank you, Schmap!
Fantastic CD release: Overcast, the Music of Ed Partyka
23 April, 2008 - 18:00 — HornCologne0:54 minutes (1.25 MB)
Overcast - The Music of Ed Partyka Performed by the Sunday Night Orchestra Featuring Efrat Alony
I am a long-time fan of Ed's music, but I've chosen to share with you a short sample of the only arrangement on the record, an eight-minute (!) version of "Time" by Tom Waits. This number really gives me goose bumps. I really should post a sample of Ed's music, too, since that's the actual point of the production ...
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Rehearsal Recording: Allegro from Sinfonia I by Alessandro Stradella arr. H.A. Stamm
23 April, 2008 - 17:17 — HornCologne1:48 minutes (2.47 MB)
This is the fourth movement of this so-called 'symphony.' This whole work is a fairly harmless, but charming bit of Baroque fluff, two slow movements, two fast movement, nice harmonies, 4th species counterpoint and all that. The arrangement is by the organist Hans-André Stamm from Leverkusen. This was recorded this week in St.
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Rehearsal Recording: Marche Réligieuse pour Cor et Orgue by Sigismund von Neukomm
23 April, 2008 - 17:08 — HornCologne3:32 minutes (4.86 MB)
This is a funny little piece from the Gallant period. It looks back to the Baroque in the beginning and then gives a nod to the coming Classical epoch (and even early Romanticism). This was recorded this week in St. Severin Church in Severin Strasse in Cologne, where I am playing a concert there with the organist, Gert Schmid on this coming Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 11 a.m. I captured this on my mini-disk player to see what was going on with the acoustics, my playing and so on.
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Rehearsal Recording: Pièce Poétique V by Geroges Barboteau
23 April, 2008 - 16:53 — HornCologne2:43 minutes (3.73 MB)
This is a recording I made this week in St. Severin Church in Severin Strasse in Cologne. I am playing a concert there with the organist, Gert Schmid on this coming Saturday, April 26th, 2008 at 11 a.m. I captured this on my mini-disk player to see what was going on with the acoustics, my playing and so on.
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On the worth of the bassoon ...
10 April, 2008 - 14:31 — HornCologne"You think that bassoons are just kind of ... advanced party-favors until they're not there. Then there's such a hole in the sound and you realize how much they contribute to the orchestra."
The Mysteries of CSS
4 April, 2008 - 15:21 — HornCologne"I already taught you everything I know about CSS when I showed you how to put a red border around a div."
CSS reset and Fonts + CSS and Internet Explorer
3 April, 2008 - 13:34 — HornCologneA couple of questions came up in our users group get together last night and I thought I should probably post the answers here again for everyone to see.
Human Google
31 January, 2008 - 23:07 — HornCologne"We know exactly what you've been searching for!"
A couple of photos from the Cologne "Street" Carnival that exploded into five days of beery, costumey goodness and action today.
Public morality
10 January, 2008 - 13:25 — HornCologne"Dr. Pollack is certainly right in maintaining that religion, particularly Christianity, ruins public morality. Good deeds are often the result not of conviction or inner compulsion, but are done almost without exception, in order to shorten the doer's time in Purgatory and assure him a place in Heaven. Hence many people generally considered kind-hearted are in fact nothing of the sort. They are merely concerned that their deeds be seen and acknowledged."
