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February 26, 2010

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Apparently Mark O’Connor, Darol Anger and that guy from Berklee were unavailable for a photo shoot, each citing hair-related issues. Yes, the dry winter is tough on even the most resilient of curls.
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• Rob as occasional (dedicated) audience member
October 3, 2009

I am doing something personally unprecedented: flying across the country to see a concert. In the past, I have journeyed in cars, buses and trains along the east coast to hear music that mattered to me. Today, an older and more ambitious version of my previous self is kicking it up a notch. I’m flying to Denver for a single night to hear the premiere of Chris Thile’s mandolin concerto.
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• Mike wins 5th place, gets on board, tells the truth
September 24, 2009

This is the first “blog” I’ve ever written. As Rob recently noted, the sole purpose of my Blog, and I do believe it deserves a capital B, is to beat Nadia, and not be the last one to write one! Having already succeeded at this point, it remains to be seen what I should actually write ABOUT. Click here for a dose of lower string charm…
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• Death of Summer features Rebirth of yMusic blog
September 21, 2009

You may have noticed a sizeable gap in yMusic communication. Instead of skirting the issue, I find it best to lay it bare, stick it right out there in the open. And in so doing, I want to reassure you all that our group has been full of the best of intentions. Read on for blog schemes, party summaries and attendance solicitations!
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• Hideaki on Flossing, Belt Brands and Lunch Tables
July 26, 2009

Hi. This is Hideaki and here is my blog. I’m going to make this quick and easy because I spent the last 15 minutes trying to write a first paragraph, and failed… Here are some short paragraphs about my fellow yMusicians that I think might be true:
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• CJ Speaks His Mind (and someone writes it down)
July 18, 2009

It’s not every day that dedicated fans can plumb the depths of CJ Camerieri’s mind. But for the second time this summer, New York’s most fashionable trumpet player waxes informative. Warning: this is a blog about a blog.
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• To Do’s, Today’s, Tallis, Totes, and Tweets
July 2, 2009

To Do Today: 1.) Bike over to Carroll Gardens and buy more coffee beans from D’Amico. Love, love, love & love. 2.) Group Photo! Assemble ALL of the kids and take a picture of them all totes togeths…shhhhhhyouloveit. 3.) Park Loop. Then, if it’s sunny, which it won’t be because it NEVER is because New York is actually New Seattle…work on the Summer Tan.
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• tales, institutional collisions, even a cape
June 27, 2009

I’ve decided to tip-toe into the ever-so-timely loss of my blogging virginity by explaining, in the horror of nonfiction, how I came to be friends with 3 members of yMusic. The description follows in chronological order…There’s Clifford Brown’s widow, a bus ride, Sting, Hideaki Aomori, hotel porn, links, Nadia Sirota, baggage claim, James Taylor, Alex Sopp and the rainforest. Read More…
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• yMusic takes test, explores results, enters period of denial
June 26, 2009

Newsflash: yMusic gets curious! yMusic goes corporate! yMusic takes a test! [Anyone else feel like they're in the middle of a Sufjan Stevens song title?] In order to explore our group dynamics from a safe distance, we tangled with a compact, internet-based version of the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. Read More…
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• on google alerts [serendipity follows struggle]
June 18, 2009

Do you use Google Alerts? I’m sure you do. If you’re like me, you use more than one. These days, google alerts have nearly taken the place of that old treasure, junk mail. You see, there are a few ‘Robs’ out there with the nickname ‘Moose.’ None of the nick or name sharers, however, can rival this incredible sentence which, courtesy of a comma, contains my name in sequence. Read More…
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• This is yMusic
June 3, 2009

yMusic is an expandable group of performers actively engaged and equally comfortable in the overlapping classical and pop music worlds. In addition to being conservatory-trained, our members are multi-instrumentalists, improvisers, composers, arrangers, conductors and singers. Read More…
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• edinburgh. then, a short history lesson.
June 3, 2009

Being on tour is like living in a vacuum. I hesitate to call it a bubble because, as we know, bubbles burst. I’m nearly five months into the ramble and luckily the height of my struggle feels like an extended loss of peripheral vision. [Cue inner dialogue: what was that about an airplane…resignations at the British Parliament…haven’t seen my passport in days...the wireless costs fifteen euro…left my violin on that bus we rented…which airline is in the One World Alliance…did you make it to breakfast?”] Read More…
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