Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

This is so cool, I just had to post it here. Enjoy!

Sunday, Aug 2

This morning I played at the 11:00 service at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Los Altos. The Organist & Music Director there is Lynda Alexander, who used to be the organist/director at St. Andrew Episcopal in Saratoga when I was the interim bell director there (Larry Sue is the bell director now - Hi, Larry!).

Here's what we played:

PRELUDE: "Trumpet Tune" by Jeremiah Clarke & "Air" by Henry Purcell - w/organ

INTROIT: "Grazioso" by Arnold Sherman - w/piano

OFFERTORY: "Be Still My Soul" arr by Christine Anderson - w/piano

COMMUNION: "Meditation on Bach's First Piano Prelude" (AKA "Ave Maria") by Charles Gounod - w/piano

POSTLUDE: "Trumpet Voluntary" (AKA "The Prince of Denmark's March") by Jeremiah Clarke - w/organ

All of these (except "Grazioso") are on my CD "Chimera"! I plan to record "Grazioso" with harp accompaniment (Kevin Holsinger) on the next Bronzewood Paedeia CD "Nocturnes (and other delights)". Can't wait - it's going to be sooo pretty!

This afternoon, Brian & I are at a birthday party for our friend Bev - it's called "Bevfest" because it's a big concert in the back yard. There's going to be a jam session later, so I brought my bells & am ready to have fun! Brian brought his camera, so I'll be sure to post pics!!

-Michèle (from my mobile phone)

Testing out new stuff

I am testing out new software here. I just signed up with Twitterfeed to have new blog posts show up automatically on my Twitter feed.

I've told it to check for new posts every hour.

Hopefully this works!

(but if not, twittermail might be a reasonable alternative. Stay tuned!) It works, but doesn't include a link, so forget that.

ADDENDUM: Twitterfeed worked! Yay! Full disclosure: Sonos is working on a new web site & wants to include ringer blogs. Since we have a brand-spanking-new Twitter feed, I wanted to see if we could set up a way to automatically tweet about new blog posts & we can. YAY! We should be able to get this set up before the December trip to Japan, so we can do our annual "Sonos in Japan" blog & tweet about it, too. WOO-HOO!

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