The Marlowsphere Blog (#127)
There’s an old saying: “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”
For a short time in 1967 I took a few lessons with a British-born jazz musician in Fresno, California, about an hour south of Merced and Castle AFB. He made me write out all the inversions of triads, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 13th chords in all major and minor keys—a workbook I still have.... keep reading »
The Marlowsphere Blog (#126)
It is a truism that those you encounter early in one’s career or artistic development who put you on the right path can be important influencers in the short and long-term. Four such people in my early evolution as a musician in the mid-late 1960s are bassist Frank LaGorce and drummer Butch Degener, and later bassist Sonny Jay and drummer Rudy Merino.... keep reading »
The Marlowsphere Blog (#125)
The following blog is based on Dr. Eugene Marlow’s talk on the Musical Icons of Marc Chagall presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the Media Ecology Association held June 11-14, 2015 at Metropolitan State University of Denver (Colorado).
During a mid-June 2013 visit to the Palais de Luxembourg, Paris, to view an exhibit of Marc Chagall it became evident within minutes how much Chagall used musical icons in his works.... keep reading »
Marlowshpere Blog (#124)
The last three blogs (#121, #122 and #123) took an overall look at job growth/job prospects for those in the so-called “creative class.” In this blog I take a specific look at those wishing to enter the fields of writing (or the literary arts), editors, and journalism:
To reiterate what I stated in the last blog, if any conclusion can be drawn from the numbers in this group of “creative class” disciplines, it is this: there is an ongoing seismic shift away from the printed word (and what it takes to create works with printed words) towards the dominance of the visual image, generally speaking.... keep reading »
Marlowsphere Blog (#123)
The last two blogs (#121/#122) took an overall look at job growth/job prospects for those in the so-called “creative class.” This is an appropriate time of year to do so given that May and early June are when college students attend graduation commencement ceremonies.... keep reading »