Inner Focus Music

My daughters favorite and country music star Taylor Swift ranks at number 69 as the most powerful celebrity in the world.  This is according to the annual Celebrity 100 list produced by Forbes.  After all the publicity she has gained this year who can be surprised!
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American [...]

The New York art world does such a wonderful job of satirizing itself that further assistance hardly seems necessary. But with “(Untitled),’’ writer and director Jonathan Parker takes for granted the trumped-up stakes, the humorlessness, and the artists’ capacity for opportunism and willful absurdity. The players in this movie are cynical, but, amazingly, Parker is [...]

1. The Stone
John Zorn’s spartan Alphabet City outpost provides a no-frills home for avant-garde music of all inclinations, programmed by different musicians each month. Ave C at 2nd St (no phone)
2. Issue Project Room at the Old American Can Factory
Issue’s current home is temporary, but avant-rockers, contemporary-classical players and electroacoustic [...]

The Museum of Modern Art presents Looking at Music: Side 2, a survey of over 120 photographs, music videos, drawings, audio recordings, publications, Super 8 films, and ephemera that look at New York City from the early 1970s to the early 1980s when the city became a haven for young renegade artists who often doubled [...]

You need to know the following items to improvise and compose in a right and nice way: first you have to know all major and minor scalesand relative keys and all chords in every keys. Then you must play all chord inversionsand the building melody techniques. You have to practice so much so you can [...]

Beginning in silence, holding only an instrument, listening within, observing a point for departure into the inner world of sudden creative expression, tapping the well to draw out a first sound in a musical exploration, that sound which then will be observed faithfully, and which then move with a life of it’s own into [...]

The viola da gamba is an old instrument that is today making a comback. Check out this information on the instrument. What is a Viola da Gamba will give you some good insights into the history of the instrument. Further information on the Viola da Gamba can be found in this [...]

Scheherazade is both the name of the narrator of the legendary age-old tales “One-Thousand-and-One Arabian Nights” as well as the title of composer and instrumentalist Al Conti’s latest album which quickly hit #1 on the international New Age Reporter airplay charts.
Scheherazade (pronounced sheh-hair-uh-zahd) is Conti’s third album and contains ten original world-fusion tunes that musically [...]