Palo Beka – Page 5

May 25, 2023

Tina Turner 1939 – 2023

I have seen Tina Turner live in concert twice, back in the nineties, and her musical energy was absolutely impressive. Older generations’ music legends are slowly leaving this world. But their music remains. That was my first thought when I heard the news last night, that the […]

April 30, 2023

New Old .. or .. Old New?

Please have a look at the two photos above and let me know in the comments below, which vases do you think are older. Left or right? To make it easier for you – or, maybe to confuse you more, I can reveal here, that there […]

March 30, 2023

No Greatness in ‘For Greatness We Bring’

As is quite common here on my blog, inspiration for this post came from a posting on social media. This one was about a mother, who asked on TikTok if her 10-year old daughter’s first music composition can be really played. She showed the three-line piece […]

February 28, 2023

Brighten Your Day with Kazoo

Yesterday my daughter came from the orchestra rehearsal with a tiny piece of plastic instrument – kazoo. Young players got those apparently to broaden their musicality. What a great idea! While I had been driving my daughter home, she showed me, giggling, her new music instrument. […]

January 31, 2023

10 Must-Reed Music Books of 2022

It was exactly a year ago that I wrote a post about interesting music books published in the previous year (link). As I liked the time I spent browsing through dozens of new published books related to the broad topic of music, following is my new […]

December 31, 2022

Two Distinct Youth Christmas Concerts

This Christmas season I have had a unique opportunity to attend and experience two school Christmas concerts. And they couldn’t be more different, although at the same time both of them had a rather interesting similarities, especially regarding the message I try to emphasize here at […]

November 30, 2022

Anthropologist Suzman challenges the Darwin’s theory, so were that leaves music?

The idea for this post comes from a YouTube video, as is often the case on my blog. In the video a social anthropologist James Suzman offers quite different view on the crucial theory of the human development, originally presented by Charles Darwin some 160 year […]

October 31, 2022

My Personal Knowledge Management System

In this post I would like to introduce to you my favourite way to gather and organize information and ideas, so that once in a while I am able to pick some of them, write a blog post, and publish it here. From the very beginning […]

September 30, 2022

My Masochistic Evening

This is not going to be a posting about music. Still, I couldn’t resist writing about my recent experience. Because it was strange and, frankly, hard to understand — if I don’t want to try to look at it through a political prism. Which I don’t. […]