Contrapuntist News

Storm Causes Electricity Withdrawal, Time to Catch Up

July 13, 2011

Viola and I are happy to be back to modern civilization after having no electricity for the past 72+ hours. In addition, our scattered posting over the past several weeks is due to a trip to Boston and relaxing over the 4th July holiday weekend. And just when we were starting to get back into [...]

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Happy (Belated) New Year

January 2, 2011

You might have noticed that Viola and I took some time off over the past two weeks. I must confess, it wasn’t intentional. We went to Texas to visit my side of the family for Christmas and, well, we enjoyed being disconnected for a while. I took my laptop home and intended to “do some [...]

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Introducing “Musical Career Profiles”

October 21, 2010

This week, Contrapuntist and I are beginning a new series, “Musical Career Profiles”. As classically trained musicians and bloggers, we’ve been fortunate enough to have colleagues and contacts in many different musical fields. We’d like to provide readers with an insider’s look by sharing interviews with people working in various aspects of the musical world. [...]

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Contrapuntist Guest At Decibel Blog

April 19, 2010

Viola and I have written quite a bit about our recent experience vacationing in New Orleans. I was asked to contribute to the Decibel blog. Thanks to David, the community manager, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. You can see what I wrote at the following link. Decibel is an new website that is [...]

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Pardon Me While I Get Sappy…

February 4, 2010

I am taking a moment away from my normal music blogging jibber jabber to get a little personal. I rarely talk about personal stuff on here, but today is a special day between Viola and I. Today marks ten years since our first date. Normally, people don’t celebrate occasions like this; at least nothing comes [...]

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Thesis Theme Issues (Updated)

January 5, 2010

Greetings folks, we seem to be having some sudden theme difficulties. This morning all was fine, and suddenly this evening everything was jacked. SO.. I have temporarily reverted back to an older theme while I figure out what the heck happened and why. I upgraded my version of Thesis over the weekend, which might have [...]

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New Theme Up With Some Kinks

October 11, 2009

Well, as I mentioned before, the new theme is up. In case you hadn’t noticed, I have run into some header coding weirdness. Unfortunately, I have to activate the theme in order to allow the Thesis community to take a look at the code to help me fix some of the design things I am [...]

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Blog Update: Redesign in Progress and New Associations

October 6, 2009

I mentioned in late August that changes were coming. In case you hadn’t noticed, my wife, under the pseudonym Viola da Voce, is actively contributing now. We have been working diligently to provide regular content about topics we love and interesting news. In addition, I promised the site was going to go through a redesign, [...]

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Contrapuntist going through some changes

August 30, 2009

Contrapuntist is going through a few changes and I thought I’d let all my friends out there know. Since I started blogging a year ago some things have changed. As we all know, life just feels like it is getting more chaotic and from time to time an adjustment is necessary. I have always believed [...]

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Quick Note: About Comments On Contrapuntist

April 26, 2009

I learned a really hard lesson this week. Never try to fix things with your blog when you are feeling really sick and aren’t able to focus on what you are doing. I recently had to switch commenting engines because Sezwho was bought out by another organization, and the company was useless in helping in [...]