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Re: “Peelander-Z Touches Down in SF”
ah my mistake.. dropped my notebook when I was dancing the mad tiger. thanks for the correction!
Re: “Burners Torched Over Native Party”
I am so glad the native american people are speaking up. Anyone on here that says they are not responsible....unless you have a true understanding of why these people had every right to be offended, then you are still perpetuating the wrongs against these people. We (white) people have in general, as a society, are not taking time to understand the rights of others (non-white people). Please my fellow descendants of colonizers, take some time, open your hearts and learn about this issue.
Re: “ASCAP Targets Farmers' Markets and House Venues”
i think that there usually isn't a cover charge to get into a farmers market. so in essence the performance isn't being sold to the public. it seems like a misdirected attempt to protect songwriters. but someone doing a cover of one of your songs at a farmers market isn't injurious to a career. it's when people illegally download that artists go bankrupt.
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
Uncle Natie,
Thank you for sharing your experiences from last year. Everything you say accurately portrays what parents experienced within months of Ms Newman arrival to YMP, she has been given an outrageous amount of power and freedom to abuse and harm the young people she is supposed to serve. In her first year she instituted the "Hall of Shame" , the board looked the other way.
I am not sure what we can do to challenge UCB and the YMP Board to correct these abuses of power, I have contacted Newman's Liz Halimah but have yet to receive any response.
Chief of Staff, ehalimah@berkeley.edu
http://diversity.berkeley.edu/staff-alpha-…
Re: “Peelander-Z Touches Down in SF”
*cough* Red plays bass. Peelander Black is the guy who shreds on guitar. Yellow plays rhythm guitar.
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
YMP, both the teachers and students, had an incalculable affect on my early years and was the sole reason I was able to go to Oberlin Conservatory and then later to the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. To find out about the horrors Ms. Newman has inflicted on the faculty (if you can even call them that) and the students is unbearable. Is there any sort of petition we could start, some sort of protest we could do to get this woman out of the what used to be such a wonderful and life-changing institution???
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
YMP was the single most influential aspect of my music education. It was the reason why I decided to go into music. The kind of education I received at YMP surpassed what I received at Oberlin Conservatory and at the graduate department of SUNY Stony Brook. YMP was a place unlike any other musical institution for young people. While in other institutions the priorities were mostly about prestige and competition, YMP was about building a community of kids from different backgrounds, and teaching them to respect each other, through their common love for music; it was about first class music education, where each faculty and staff exemplified that being a musician is about personal conviction, hardwork, generosity of spirit, and the highest respect for music as an art form. Everything I did in my musical life after YMP was still inspired by what I experienced at YMP, whether I was on stage or in a class room teaching.
This was the YMP I knew when Marsha Jaeger was the director. YMP has always been, in my heart, the most valuable musical institution in this country.
It is heart breaking to find out it has suffered such toxic leadership. I hope the board will take action and save YMP.
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
This article is largely focused on the affect Miss Daisy's sour attitude and confusion about the program's goals has on her employees, but the sad truth is that her young students are the ones who suffer the brunt of her tirades. I'm sad to say that two of my neices were forced out of YMP last year over wild, hurtful, and untrue allegations about their behavior and dedication to the program by none other than Miss Daisy herself. These two wonderful girls are from a low-income family, and this program initially seemed like a blessing - offering them the opportunity to excel at the instruments they are passionate about, in an environment with other precocious students and dedicated teachers. In reality, Miss Daisy verbally abuses her students and their parents, regardless of their efforts. She essentially has a few "favorite" students who are incredibly gifted, and who she treats like trophies. Most, if not all, are young males. Everyone else is subjected to an unrealistic standard of achievement, which, when they inevitably fail to reach, results in a verbal lashing from Miss Daisy. My young neices were essentially called stupid and talentless for failing to live up to MD's standards on recital days, and I saw their confidence in themselves drop significantly under Miss Daisy, despite their fierce dedication and hard work during the summer months (when most kids are outside playing - they were practicing). These girls understood that sacrifice was necessary to achieve their goals, but nothing is good enough for MD, unless you are in her chosen few. We finally decided it was time for them to bow out of the program when Miss Daisy insinuated in a written letter to their mother, that they were stupid, whorish, and would never be successful in music. The constant abuse from Miss Daisy (ONLY her, the rest of the staff was wonderful!) became too much, and the stress on the girls was taking a heavy emotional toll. We chose to pull them from the program before Miss Daisy could do permanent damage to their wellbeing and sense of confidence. Shame on you, Miss Daisy!
Re: “At Vamp Records, Business Thrives on "Endangered" Media”
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Re: “Shedding Light on Mastering”
My name is Daniel Grau Sosa, I am a musician and sound engineer and I find very interesting points made in this article, so I would like to emphasize that I have developed a program specially designed for me which has a built-in intelligent equalizer six bands plus a volume optimizer if anyone was interested in a demonstration or information about it or you can write me also danybyte@cantv.net danybytert@hotmail.com.
Re: “Dimesland: Metal's True Outsiders”
Dimesland playing this coming Saturday at the Stork Club!
Saturday April 28, 9 p.m.
$6 Stork Club 2330 Telegraph Ave., Oakland
Jackal Fleece, Dimesland, Satya Sena, Electric Chair Repair Co.
https://www.facebook.com/events/4200535846…
Re: “Pay to Play”
Cafes should play classical music, or music on labels from outside the US.
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
YMP was an amazing opportunity for me growing up, and when it became time to give back, the road block was Daisy. The kids loved me, and were all saddened when i was let go because i scheduled a substitute with her approval that she later forgot about. She refused to see me about the issue, or even talk to me on the phone about the misunderstanding. It was her way or the highway even if it was her mistake. The main issue is that she doesn't ever seem to remember that the program is about the kids, not her bruised EGO, or her since of accomplishment. She should have been replaced after the first year. How amazing that program could have been with Khalil Shaheed behind the wheel the past 9 years.
Re: “Local Licks”
Very good you have referenced the CD Do Salgado e do Doce ( Salt & Sweet) of the Brazilian singer Vagner Santo. Different voice with excellent tracking performance and enhanced with many great musicians. Congratulations to you for releasing foreign talent in yours column. I'm American, but like a lot of Brazilian music and I recommend the CD. (Sandy P., San Francisco).
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
since arriving Daisy Newman has damaged YMP and abused numerous students and teachers. In 2003 my son was kicked out of the program in a hostile act without any proper investigation or factual basis to justify such a major action after his 8 years in the program and a few days before his final senior recital, it was heartbreaking and shocking. He was reinstated once I went up two levels of supervisors with a formal complaint, he received lessons but was allowed avoid other obligations that would place him near Ms Newman. Over the next year I was contacted by close to a dozen families with similar horrifying tales of abuses against their children, these were students who had dedicated themselves for years to their musicianship and the program requirements. I contacted the YMP board president and parent council. Parents organized a meeting with Newman's supervisor during which students explained how they were unfairly dismissed from the program and the emotional abuses they suffered. Many parents took their concerns to the YMP board president, vice-chancellor office and EAOP director. There is plenty of evidence to support dismissing Ms Newman, it is past time to repair the wonderful program YMP once was.
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
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Re: “Onward, Victory!”
Awesome tour diary and band!! More of this please.
Re: “Churn and Burn at the Young Musicians Program”
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Re: “Nowhere to Go but "Up"”
Been fucking with HBK gang since 09....but sounds like the writer is a bit biased? ? Hmmm..