Look and Listen #26: N’terini by Fatoumata Diawara from Colors
Fatoumata Diawara is a Malian musician and actress born in Ivory Coast. She was sent back to Mali as a teenager to be raised by her aunt in her own …
Quote for Today: Wassily Kandinsky
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to ‘walk about’ into a hitherto unknown …
Look and Listen #2: The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed by Joel Thompson
If you haven’t heard Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, prepare yourself for this stirring work. This is a scoring for full orchestra; the original was for a …
Featured Artist: B.J. Brooks
Meet Dr. B.J. Brooks, who composed Pathway to Polaris, featured in the upcoming issue of Synkroniciti Magazine as a music video recorded by the West Texas A&M Symphony Orchestra conducted …
Featured Artist: The WTAMU Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Mark Bartley
Meet Dr. Mark Bartley, the director of the West Texas A&M University Symphony Orchestra. We are so proud to feature the orchestra, along with concertmaster and violin soloist Havuka Lund, …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #31: Ale Martore from San Salvador, El Salvador, Mi casa, Mi país
Day 31 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features the sweet sounds of Ale Martore, a musician from San Salvador, El Salvador. This is Mi casa, Mi País. She wrote this …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #25: The Covid-19 Fugue by Nicholas Papadimitriou
Day 25 of the Globe-travelling Travel Series takes us to Amsterdam, where composer Nicholas Papadimitriou, born in Athens, Greece, has used his quarantine time to create an impressive and satisfying …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #22: Louis-Marie Fardet of the Houston Symphony with Fabien Gabel
Day 22 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series returns home to Houston to feature the mesmerizing and soulful playing of Louis-Marie Fardet of the Houston Symphony, accompanied on the piano by …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #5: Violinist Lena Yokoyama from Cremona, Italy
The 5th day of the Globe-trotting Travel Series takes us to a hospital rooftop in Cremona, Italy, where violinist Lena Yokoyama plays a passionate performance of Gabriel’s Oboe from The …
Quote for Today: Charles Beaumont
The melody got lost, first off. Everything got lost, then, while that horn flew. It wasn’t only jazz; it was the heart of jazz, and the insides, pulled out …