On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:51 PM, David Ilvedson wrote: > If those of you who are on some sort of 1/2 time/fulltime situation > find you need to attend as a working technician, do you subtract the > hours from your normal work week? If I were required to attend, it would be on the clock, and it would mean less hours elsewhere in the week. I am not on a regular schedule (by my own choice - I am pretty autonomous), but put in 40 hours every two weeks pretty much without fail (occasionally if something comes up, I fudge the time sheet to move a couple hours from one pay period to another). With respect to attending when I choose to, it is a matter of being part of the community (spending time conversing with various faculty and students on a regular basis outside normal work hours fosters good relationships), getting to attend a free concert, and hearing the instrument in action. There is no substitute for attending a performance when it comes to evaluating your instrument and your work on it. I often hear something or other that I hadn't noticed - maybe some damper return noise, for instance. I certainly don't attend all concerts. Spring semester there are often three or four student recitals stacked up a day. I make it to some major faculty, some graduate or undergraduate piano recitals, maybe a few a semester. This week I attended three nights in a row of our annual composers symposium concerts, partly because many of the composers and performers are good friends, partly because I am interested in hearing what composers are up to these days. Some great stuff (and some rather boring and annoying stuff as well), some amazing performances. A couple visiting pianists (at the symposium) were particularly noteworthy: Lisa Moore (www.lisamoore.org) and Noam Sivan (http://www.noamsivan.com/ ). Moore is the wife of composer Martin Bresnick and plays mostly in the NYC area, mostly avant-garde music. Sivan is a doctoral student at Juilliard, also on the faculty of Curtis and Mannes, composing, leading improvisation workshops. Both are amazing pianists in very different ways. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm http://www.youtube.com/fredsturm http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/FredSturm
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