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If anyone is in the area on July 8th, Christopher McFarlane will be performing the Five Sacred Trees (with piano accompaniment) at 8:00 p.m. at Hall Auditorium at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. McFarlane is the principal bassoonist of the United States Marine Band, one of the finest musical organizations in the country. The concert is free and no tickets are required. The performance is part of the International Double Reed Society’s Annual Conference. You can read the official announcement here.

Photo nº 9 is epic!

A rapist?!? Really?!? Comes on guys, it's not like he's James Horner.

Im happy to see that there is a DS9 set coming. That will fit well on my shelf with The Gold Box and The TNG Set.

definatly a guy with a shag carpeted windowless van....

He looks like a rapist, until he starts speaking.

I would like to see an expanded release to Dark City.

"Guess I should have seen that coming huh..." "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner."

Eb major over g minor?? Sounds like she's just trying to be clever... I once heard someone say that in the song "Dream a Littl Dream of Me", the bridge goes to a German +6 chord.... He was obviously thinking he was being clever.... But cleverly wrong. So I said, "Really? I suppose the following chords are I 6/4 and then V7, right? Last I checked, they're not..." If it doesn't quack like a Ger+6, it's probably a duck. To even suggest bitonality in the imperial march is pretty silly...

Well, I have "Settling The Score", and she writes that the melody is a major progression over minor chords.....which isnt at all correct. She said the melody sounds minor even though its major. The first chords are G minor, Eb minor and then back to G minor. If you dont believe me, just check out the sheet music or score. well.... actually, this is right. the first phrase of the melody (the first 9 notes or 2 bars) which is very characteristic of the Imperial march theme goes like this : G-G-G-Eb-Bb-G-Eb-Bb-G if you watch this carefully it's just an arpeggio in Eb major! (Eb-G-Bb) But the harmony beneath is minor as you correctly said. So, we indeed have a major melody sounding minor because of the harmony. that was what she meant I believe.. and also, about that La strada theme. It's indeed generally accepted that downward notes motion symbolizes sad feelings.. but of course this is not the only reason. many things play a role, like the context in which this motion belongs to, the harmony, etc... I hear what you're saying. The problem is, the ear hears G as the home note so in a fixed 'do' scenario G (la) is the tonic. That in itself makes the melody sound minor. You don't really hear the G as 'mi' Mi is only the tonic in Phrygian mode.

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