Author Archives: Michael

Force Quit and Move to Trash

Well, this is a natural topic for this blog! First of all, U2’s new album No Line on the Horizon is very good indeed. U2 albums take time to reveal the full depth of their charms, and I’m only on … Continue reading

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February Performances

My next concert performances are coming up next week. I will be singing in the Stanford Symphonic Chorus in Stanford’s annual Pan-Asian Music Festival, performing together with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. We will be singing Cosmic Solitude by Japanese composer … Continue reading

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Altova Case Study

Recordare has been using Altova products such as XMLSpy and DiffDog for many years to help develop both the MusicXML format and our Dolet plug-ins. Now Altova has written up our experience as a case study and posted it on … Continue reading

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Dolet 4.6 for Finale Now Available

I hope that everyone had a happy holiday season and new year! To start off the new year, Recordare has released version 4.6 of our Dolet for Finale plug-in. Dolet is a plug-in for the Finale music notation program that … Continue reading

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Richard Thompson at Villa Montalvo

I just spent a very happy musical weekend at Villa Montalvo. Richard Thompson came to town for a 3-night engagement. Friday and Saturday nights were all-request shows, and Sunday night was a theme show on “Worksongs, Ballads and Rallying Cries: … Continue reading

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Don Ellis’s "Soaring" now on CD!

Finally! My favorite studio album from Don Ellis, Soaring, is now available on CD from Amazon and other fine retailers. From hot charts like “Whiplash” and “Invincible” to beautiful ballads like “Nicole” and “Image of Maria”, this album is the … Continue reading

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Prof. Michael Hammer

Michael Hammer was far and away my most influential computer science professor at MIT. And I had a lot of great professors there, both inside and outside of computer science. His far-too-early death last September shocked me. Most of the … Continue reading

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October / November Performances

     It’s been a while since posting because things have been very busy with both MusicXML work and performances. I can’t write about the MusicXML work at this point, but the performances went great. Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights got … Continue reading

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