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Louisville School of Music - Weekly Calendar

All concerts and shows listed are free of charge:

 

Sunday, October 31
- 3:00 p.m. - Guest Artist: Daron Hagen, vocal music composer

 

Tuesday, November 2
- 8:00 p.m. - Guest Artist: Lee Luvisi, piano - performing music by Bach, Chopin, Karol Szymanowski, & Aaron Copland

 

Thursday, November 4
- 8:00 p.m. - Faculty Artist: Dror Biran, piano
The concert will include four pianists from four different countries: Michael Schneider from USA, pianist, director of the San Angelo Piano Festival; Caroline Oltmanns from Germany, pianist and professor of piano at Youngstown State University; James Wilding from South Africa, composer and pianist, professor at University of Akron; and Dror Biran pianist, piano professor at UofL. This will be an entertaining concert that includes pieces ranging from one hand on one piano to eight hands on two pianos. Among the famous pieces on the program are Schubert's Trout Quintet, Rossini's William Tell Overture, and Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever. This concert will display great variety in pieces, sounds, styles, and virtuosity along with a short explanation about each piece and composer.

 

Friday, November 5
- 6:00 p.m. - Guest Artist: Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, songtalker, delivering the 4th Annual Anne Braden Memorial Lecture, "The Civil Rights Movement and Students: Creating a Vital Transformative Change in the Struggle for American Freedom." Performing with her will be The Black Diamond Choir.

 

Project Pizza Continues

I have been working on making my own pizza crusts.  I am using the classic ratio of 10:6:1 (Flour, water, fat).  My first crusts were OK but kind of flat and tasteless.  I have been experimenting and have added kosher salt and olive oil into the dough.  This has given the dough more taste but it's lack of leavening has disappointed me.  I doubled the amount of yeast to the dough but the result was limited.  I changed from active to instant yeast.  Same lackluster result.

Finally, I tried making the dough 24 hours in advance and let the dough sit in the refrigerator overnight.  The dough doubled in size and when baked achieved the leavening I was looking for.  I love the moments when you know that you finally got something right.  I suspect that I will be doing very little ordering from pizza delivery companies anymore! :)

Happy Halloween!

My elder son decrees that he is too old for Halloween - but my younger son is really into it.  He is 9 years old and only decided that he likes chocolate in the last 3 months.  For the first time in his life, he will be eating all of his candy and not giving the chocolate away! :)  Enjoy Adam!

Why A Blog????

I decided to start this just to record things that capture my attention. Instead of writing my traditional journal, I want to use this blog to remind myself how little I really know!  I love the moments when I experience something that makes me say Cool! :)