Steve’s Music Roll

The technology to record music has become very easy to access and use. Years ago you needed to know someone who had a studio, fancy multi-track tape recorder, and expensive microphones to produce a record or CD. Now one can produce their own album with equipment just under $1000. The issue here is that since [...]

It has been happening for a while now. Studying the arts whether fine or performing has been deemphasized. Schools have been cutting funding for their arts programs along with the state governments cutting back on funding the arts. Does anyone realize what this action is doing to education in the long run?
Having a background in [...]

We thought vinyl records would be gone with the evolution of the CD in the eighties the same way that videos were thought to be the killer of the radio play. What is ironic now is that less CDs are being sold and the amount of vinyl records being sold has increased.
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If we look at music groups that are offered over the course of a life time, one will find that there are youth choirs, high school choirs, college choirs and…. adult choirs. Notice, the hesitation between college choirs and adult choirs. Most adult choirs consist of singers who are middle aged. Very few members are [...]

Music along with art have to be appreciated first hand. Second hand exposure does not affect the human psyche as great as physically being there to experience it first hand. There is something about live music and performance that is different than seeing or hearing from a recording. Without getting into the technicalities of audio [...]