Introducing our new “Cry for Help” series. If you know of a good campus related event, post it in the comments and each Friday we’ll highlight one and put it at the top of the blog.
5/1/2020: A cry for help from Brian McWhorter:
Today at 4p! Watch Eugene Ballet and Orchestra Next perform Stravinsky’s The Firebird (complete). This is the first time the Ballet has released a prior performance for free online.
Bonus: as you listen to it, you’ll be able to hear SEVERAL music faculty who are among the 211 NTTFs who don’t know if they’ll have a job in the Fall.
https://www.facebook.com/EugeneBalletCompany/
4/22/2020: A cry for help from your UOM editor:
It’s 3PM. I’ve spent 4 hours on zoom today. Another hour to go, starting at 4. Can anyone provide a link to a musical antidote to fill these little gaps?
Sunday Baroque, just Google it to find it.
https://vimeo.com/325342593
When I was 15 I traded the CD Blizzard of Oz (which domains this track) to my stoner friend for a copy of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by Neumann and Morgenstern, which he probably stole from somewhere. I learned some version of utility theory from it. I was on the losing side of that deal.
pretty sure I remember you from high school calc. You still got my book? I need it to work out a progressive wage cut scheme.
Simplest question ever:
Dude, Bang Your Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_1ruZWJigo
But for something really obscure and perhaps most appropriate for Zoom
Alice Cooper, Ballad of Dwight Frye (listen to the whole thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyJ6dBAlJnE
theme song of my life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMo6Ju8SJ8o
With the super apropos lyrics:
Oh zoom, you chased the day away
High noon, the moon and stars came out to play
Then my whole wide world went zoom
(High as a rainbow as we went flyin’ by)
Surely you knew know that Zoom has a theme song.
I mean, you did know that, right…?
Rush – Exit Stage Left. You’ll get through most of it and the air-drumming relieves the tension
A thoughtful musical comment on our current condition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBM6EYmBpE
Go outside and take a walk through the neighborhood! Listen for the birds, especially the ducks.
I always feel better after I join a union. Try UAUO’s online membership link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWlPkhxAzbHOsrAssgK_gAhr5clorn9r5R7_xR1PcVtcc9vg/viewform
Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. From Italy on black and white television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZ1n43cUDk
Thanks readers. My insanity level is now down to the yellow range. Please keep these coming.
When my eyeballs hurt, I ask myself: Would Hank done it this way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgenVANpKgU
Four hours? You weenie.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223242115184653&set=a.1421622984058&type=3&theater
I believe that is the waveform of insanity
Today at 4p! Watch Eugene Ballet and Orchestra Next perform Stravinsky’s The Firebird (complete). This is the first time the Ballet has released a prior performance for free online.
Bonus: as you listen to it, you’ll be able to hear SEVERAL music faculty who are among the 211 NTTFs who don’t know if they’ll have a job in the Fall.
https://www.facebook.com/EugeneBalletCompany/
Just wanted to say that I attended the live performance and loved it.