Mixed Meters

Slave to 'Time Is Money' is a 130-second long 30 Second Spot . It's not a terribly pleasant piece of music: it reminds me of th...

One reason for the dearth of recent Mixed Meters posts is the computer failure I recently endured - caused not by a hard drive crash but by ...

No musician admits it out loud and a few probably don't even admit it to themselves, but every musician wants to get into the history bo...

Which of these musical terms: Allegro Aria Arpeggio Cornet Forte Trio would you name your coffee your bridal shop your apartment building yo...

Other opera related videos posted to Mixed Meters are here and here (Both of them are the Queen of the Night aria.) Space Opera?

In the spring of 1994 Leslie befriended a young orange tabby cat living in the parking lot of her museum. When she heard rumors that animal...

This picture is the head of a tiny sea worm. It comes from the 2009 SCAMIT calendar which was designed by Leslie Harris. Get yours today....

Through bad planning I managed to watch most of Pasadena's Doo Dah Parade on Sunday. The Doo Dah Parade is Pasadena's answer to...

This piece is nearly 2 years old. I remember, back then, that I still wanted to change some things about it. So I flagged it in my mind as...

One night in 1980 my friend John Steinmetz couldn't sleep. Instead, he drew pictures of blenders, those friendly, familiar kitchen comp...

Read Alan Rich, eloquent about the life and recent death of Betty Freeman , here.