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	<description>Music Transcription - Composition - Piano Performance</description>
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		<title>All We Like Sheep&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;is my favorite part of Handel&#8217;s Messiah. I&#8217;m singing this weekend with Vox Humana and Victoria Symphony in two concerts. The photo is from one of the rehearsals with orchestra at UVic. Our first show was last night but you can still get tix for tomorrow (Sunday) at 2:30PM. Click here for tickets Come and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Piano Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a fresh piano recording made this week at The Magnolia Hotel. It&#8217;s Chopin&#8217;s Minute Waltz in D-flat Major, a lively waltz and a nice challenge for the right hand. Enjoy! There are more recordings to come&#8230; Minute Waltz in Db &#8211; Piano at The Magnolia Hotel &#038; Spa by SoundstoneMusic]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/more-piano-music/</link>
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		<title>A Choral Christmas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like I could stand on the street corner with a sign marked &#8220;I&#8217;m a Tenor&#8221; until a desperate choir director tosses me in the back of a van. At Christmas time, I&#8217;d probably only wait 8-10 minutes. Last night I got a last-minute email invite to join Vox Humana and others to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/a-choral-christmas/</link>
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		<title>Live Piano Recordings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month I&#8217;ve been using my new portable microphone to record some piano music at The Magnolia Hotel. I&#8217;ve put a few tracks up on Soundcloud to share with you. Here they are: Chopin Étude in Ab &#8211; Live at The Magnolia Hotel &#038; Spa by SoundstoneMusic The Swan &#8211; Piano at Magnolia Hotel &#038; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/live-piano-recordings/</link>
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		<title>Fall Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick update on what&#8217;s happening at Soundstone Music. It&#8217;s been a quiet few months on this blog but music is still being made here! This fall I have decided to move on from most of my accompanying gigs (notably Viva Youth Choirs and the studio of Marnie Setka-Mooney) in order to become more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/fall-update/</link>
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		<title>Orchestral Running Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You could listen to music every second of the day for your whole life and still never hear it all. I discovered this piece by American composer John Adams recently. I&#8217;m always looking for music to add to my running playlist and this one fits right in. I love the overlapping rhythms in the orchestra. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/orchestral-running-music/</link>
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		<title>Music From the Heart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marked a big event. My piece Prayer Without Words was read and recorded by the Victoria Symphony! As I said before, having my work played by a pro orchestra has been a long-lasting dream of mine. It was amazing to see the hours of preparation turn into something real (or surreal, which is how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/music-from-the-heart/</link>
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		<title>#askacomposer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pianist friend of mine once told me that she couldn&#8217;t imagine being a composer. She pictured herself spending long hours working alone writing and thinking in a dark room&#8230;with candle wax spilling over parchment amid stone busts of dead people. Well I made up that last part. But composers do work alone, most of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/askacomposer/</link>
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		<title>Preparing Orchestral Parts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[or, How To Use Surgical Tape Without Going To Med School (it&#8217;s not for paper cuts) Preparing parts for a professional orchestra is all about the details. After the mammoth task of editing (not to mention writing) the full score, we composers must then break our work into digestible pieces for performance by an orchestra. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/preparing-orchestral-parts/</link>
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		<title>Great Skills Development Quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a tip for composers, revealed to me by a young person I recently worked with: &#8220;You should be a composer, Dave. You know, most composers were musicians before they were composers.&#8221; -Viva Youth Choirs chorister, age 9 And hopefully they remained musicians long afterward! Evidently, I meet the prerequisite for writing music: I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soundstone.ca/great-skills-development-quote/</link>
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