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The Short Road to Nirvana: June 2011
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Monday, June 6, 2011. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. Dear [name withheld],. And the money he gave me in our early days together! The money Dad spent helping me try to help you was the biggest waste, even after I had my own money to give you. He keeps offering to pay for your mistakes, did you know that? So see you around, Finale. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Rest Is Noise.
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The Short Road to Nirvana: January 2010
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Sunday, January 10, 2010. Cry me a river. Serious posts, soon, I promise, but a quote from this article. Pricked my irony meter this morning (italics mine):. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Cry me a river. The Rest Is Noise. Canadian-born composer and performer, living and working in Finland since 2001. View my complete profile. Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Short Road to Nirvana
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Friday, October 28, 2011. I've been swamped with work and worry again, but I'd be remiss in my self-promoting duties if I didn't mention tomorrow's big event: the release on the Alba. Label of my first "solo" CD. The music in question is my hour-long cycle of piano pieces, Leaves of Grass. Played by Risto-Matti Marin, a great pianist, and my great friend. I feel as if af...
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The Short Road to Nirvana: Surfacing
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Friday, July 15, 2011. Well, I guess I'm back from my hiatus. Forgive the awkwardness of the blog's appearance, I just discovered Blogger's new templates and am experimenting with a new layout. I'm usually loath to change things about the way I work once I find something simple and elegant that suits my purposes, but it's been a season of change. Much to do, much to say,...
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The Short Road to Nirvana: May 2010
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Saturday, May 22, 2010. Old dogs, new questions (and mixed metaphors). It's fitting somehow that my hundredth post, whatever its significance, should fall on this particular topic. For the last couple of weeks, I've been swamped with freelance work writing the program book for the Viitasaari Time of Music. How much should there be? And yet, I'm offered this huge, rare, p...
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The Short Road to Nirvana: April 2010
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Thursday, April 29, 2010. Have You No Glass? Vappu, or May Day, is traditionally a labor holiday in parts of this continent, with parades and political speech. However, in Finland it's a day of fun and frivolity, the latter of which I appreciate, while avoiding the local manifestation of the former. In the spirit of the occasion, I offer a sub rosa. If 'yes', you have le...
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The Short Road to Nirvana: Your regularly scheduled program
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Tuesday, August 10, 2010. Your regularly scheduled program. My feverish son is home for a couple of days, which means that my studio is keeping its nighttime job as his bedroom for the moment, leaving me with a bit of time to read and blog. I should be reading Mahler, but I got sidetracked by my wife's gift of Anthony Bourdain's latest. This type of note in a post a few ...
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The Short Road to Nirvana: July 2010
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Monday, July 19, 2010. During my travels I was gifted with three. Of pieces from the more meditative side of my output, from three very different groups, one in Japan and two here in Finland. (The Helsinki Chamber Choir. Concert featuring my ad puram annihilationem meam. And an amazing premiere by my colleague Sampo Haapamäki can be streamed online here. In each culture,...
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The Short Road to Nirvana: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Monday, June 6, 2011. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. Dear [name withheld],. And the money he gave me in our early days together! The money Dad spent helping me try to help you was the biggest waste, even after I had my own money to give you. He keeps offering to pay for your mistakes, did you know that? So see you around, Finale. June 6, 2011 at 11:18 PM. The Rest Is Noise.
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The Short Road to Nirvana: March 2010
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The Short Road to Nirvana. A blog by composer Matthew Whittall. Classical music, contemporary and otherwise, with assorted digressions. Sunday, March 28, 2010. Spring cleaning of the mind. If you have time this weekend," said Hedi on her way out the door to Estonia with the baby, "It would be great if you could vacuum." That's how all this started. I pulled the damn vacuum out of the closet. To my own copy, I should do that and return it." And so on. The Big One, that's what. Monday, March 8, 2010. I'm g...
