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Thursday, July 9, 2026

What I'm reading now

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 My last post on this topic was in May, so I have some catching up to do. Here is what I have read and am reading since then: A quick and ea...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Hail Rick Beato

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 This is today's listening: I am hardly posting anything these days, but this is such a beautiful post with such beautiful music. I resp...
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Monday, June 1, 2026

Lots of new releases from Naxos

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Me and AI: A Conversation

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Yesterday I was in a restaurant with a few minutes to kill and I decided to start a conversation with Meta AI which is on my iPhone. Here is...
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Sunday, May 24, 2026

What I'm Reading/Watching

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First, what I'm currently reading: This book, that I just finished this morning, is known particularly as the target of a vile attack. W...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Today's Listening: Prokofiev

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This is Russian pianist Alexei Sultanov, piano Live at the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition - Round 2 Moscow Conservatory, 199 Rus...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Mexico City

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  The Angel of Reforma I just spent a few days in Mexico City over Easter and I enjoy it more each time I visit. It is such a large city--ar...
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Bryan Townsend
Born in Alberta, Canada, grew up on Vancouver Island, lived a decade in Montreal, resident in Mexico since 1998. Degrees in music from McGill University in performance, post-graduate study in musicology. Catalogue includes a cycle of twelve songs, two suites for solo guitar, chamber music for violin, viola and guitar, two guitars and harpsichord and other combinations including three pieces for guitar orchestra published by Guitarissimo of Stockholm, Sweden. Publications include two books of pedagogy for guitar, one on technique and the other on playing Bach, which included eight new transcriptions for guitar. Four Pieces for Violin and Guitar were published by The Avondale Press in Vancouver. In April 2015 a new piece for violin and piano, "Chase" was premiered in a concert at Belles Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico. In the 2021/2022 season there will be two premieres: the String Quartet 2 in Vancouver and an untitled piano piece in the Pro Musica series in San Miguel de Allende, Gto. Mexico.
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