http://blog.silversand.org sound, silver, art, politics Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:42:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This beautiful and sad article from the LaFayette Sun was recently posted to the Fasola discussion list. The article, written by an educator and leader in the black community of Chambers County, describes the decline and recent cessation of the seven shape singing conventions in the area. The article was ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/10/21/seven-shape-singing-in-chambers-county/ Each year for the last few years, Will Fitzgerald, a Sacred Harp singer from Kalamazoo, Michigan and NASA scientist in his spare time has published a list of the frequency of tunes led at Sacred Harp singings over the previous year, compiled by examining the published minutes of Sacred Harp ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/08/11/common-and-uncommon-tunes/ Well, looks like I haven’t posted to this blog since advertising the June Albany All-Day singing in, well, June [Doh, May]. Now it’s August. That makes this blog about as close to dead as it’s ever been. Since I last posted I went on a 10-day trip to Alabama for Camp ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/08/08/so-hi/ I will be serving as chair this year of the Albany-Area New York State Regional All Day Singing. This is the only All-Day Sacred Harp singing in Eastern New York, and is held in the Old Songs Building, an 1880s structure in Voorheesville, NY with excellent acoustics (and the site ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/05/30/albany-all-day-singing-june-10/ If you’re anywhere near Troy this Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, this festival should be lovely. My friends Micah and Bethany are performing, and I’ll be there volunteering most of the weekend. The Gilded Pony Performance Festival Troy, NY — ATLAS Dance and FO (A) RM Magazine present The Gilded Pony Performance Festival ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/05/15/gilded-pony/ I’m watching Joe Biden on C-SPAN. He’s giving a speech at the Galavants Ferry Stump Meeting in South Carolina so he’s speaking about religion. A choice quote: The Republicans use religion as an organizing tool, we see it as the road to redemption. That’s the difference between us. Clever. http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/05/08/biden-on-religion/ I won’t be in this show since I’m graduating this semester. But most of my fellow grads will be. Come take a look! “Empty-Set-Go!,” an exhibition of work by MFA candidates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will take place on Sunday, May 7th from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the West ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/05/05/empty-set-go/ James Poniewozik wrote Wednesday that the Colbert speech is becoming “the political-cultural touchstone issue of 2006.” So it seems that thanks to the Internet, this speech may end up getting the attention it deserves. Maybe. Poniewozik writes for TIME, but this piece appear on his Tuned In blog for TIME.com. ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/05/04/the-internet-probably-doesnt-matter/ It looks like some other people, some of them from mainstream media outlets, noticed the lopsided coverage of the White House press correspondents’ dinner. Since I wrote my previous post, a number of other bloggers, followed by a number of web sites associated with newspapers and TV shows (as well ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/05/03/media-realizes-it-sucks-sorta/ Steven Colbert gave a dark and bitingly funny speech at last night’s White House press correspondents’ dinner. Colbert spoke after President Bush himself, who appeared with Bush impersonator Steve Bridges acting as the President’s internal monologue as the two delivered a speech. The Bush/Bridges duo was innocuous but uproariously funny. ... http://blog.silversand.org/index.php/2006/04/30/colbert-at-the-white-house-press-correspondents-dinner/