Jeff and I decide to share our artistic process and approach to preparing a piece of music with you! Join us as we get started on a piece of music called The Hunting Song by Felix Mendelssohn, from Songs Without Words, Op. 19 No. 3. Here we will share some played excerpts from the piece, along with historical and cultural facts and perspectives based on the piece.

This episode is in two parts thanks to Zoom; this is part two.

Take a look at the music here (thanks to IMSLP.org):

https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:IMSLPImageHandler/52241%2Fhfcn

Follow and support the pianist Jeffrey Hampton at:

https://www.facebook.com/HamptonMusicEville/

https://www.sixpackandasong.com/

Jeff and I decide to share our artistic process and approach to preparing a piece of music with you! Join us as we get started on a piece of music called The Hunting Song by Felix Mendelssohn, from Songs Without Words, Op. 19 No. 3. Here we will share some played excerpts from the piece, along with historical and cultural facts and perspectives based on the piece.

This episode is in two parts thanks to Zoom; this is part one.

Take a look at the music here (thanks to IMSLP.org):

https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:IMSLPImageHandler/52241%2Fhfcn

Follow and support the pianist Jeffrey Hampton at:

https://www.facebook.com/HamptonMusicEville/

https://www.sixpackandasong.com/

Welcome to the very first Christmas themed episode of High Resolution Life! Annette and Jeff share a musical Christmas gift with you all, along with reflections about popular Christmas music, and Christmas memories throughout the years.

Here is the information referenced in the podcast about Carol of the Bells and In The Bleak Midwinter:

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/christmas/in-the-bleak-midwinter-lyrics-song-carol-peaky/

Follow and support the pianist Jeffrey Hampton at:

https://www.facebook.com/HamptonMusicEville/

https://www.sixpackandasong.com/

Richard Wagner is a controversial and influential force in the world of opera - in this episode, we examine the implications of his works, his influence in film, and elements of his work from Rienzi. 

Follow and support the pianist Jeffrey Hampton at:

https://www.facebook.com/HamptonMusicEville/

https://www.sixpackandasong.com/

Jeffrey Hampton joins us again to chime in on a tricky topic - musicians are faced with cumulative tuition hikes at Juilliard. This led the student body to protest, something that aspiring classical musicians rarely have time to do. This drastic course of action led begged us to ask the question, what is the real worth of musicians when attending music school? This was meant to just be a quick episode but it turns out we had a lot to say about it... 

Follow and support the pianist Jeffrey Hampton at:

https://www.facebook.com/HamptonMusicEville/ 

https://www.sixpackandasong.com/

Jeff Hampton joins us again on this episode, which truly ends up being a wild ride. We talk about Russian composers (a large portion of time is devoted to Prokofiev), linguistics, diction, drug use by soldiers during the 20th century, Gustav Mahler and COVID-19. Want to know how we got there? Tune in and join us on this wild ride!

Check out Jeff's podcast, Six Pack and a Song, that he produces with his friend Andy here: http://www.sixpackandasong.com

We're back for 2021! Today we introduce Wyman Brent on the podcast! Listen to Wyman Brent's story of how he founded a Jewish library in Vilnius, Lithuania.  To learn more about the Vilnius Jewish Public Library, check out their website here.

In this episode, we welcome Amy Podoletz to the podcast to share her expertise on the animation genre known as anime! Amy is a graduate of Seton Hill University, majoring in Information and Library Sciences.  I decided to delve into a little bit more of what narratives anime focuses on and some of the anime series that Amy recommends to check out... If you don't know anything about anime or want to delve a little bit more into what it's all about, this is the podcast for you! Follow Amy on Twitter at @janedoetheghost

On this episode of High Resolution Life, we welcome Jeffrey Hampton back to the podcast! This time we talk about atonal music, locusts and telemarketers. How do they all relate to this episode? Well, this episode evolved from a phone call rant that was paused so the conversation could be shared with you all! Atonal music is a type of music that moves away from a typical tonal center (think of your scales and your arpeggios), and how this atonal movement set the stage for different types of music and performance styles in the 20th century; which leads to the whole locust thing. As for the telemarketers? Well, you'll have to listen and find out for yourself on that one. Enjoy!

Today we welcome John Moist to High Resolution Life! John Moist is a doctoral student studying communication at University of Illinois, and his studies focus on rhetoric, technology and economic topics. Annette and John were both born and raised in Altoona, Pennsylvania and are both former homeschoolers. John Moist has joined Annette on the podcast to talk about being raised as homeschoolers, how they feel it impacted their personal "success," common stereotypes they often dealt with due to their education, and pragmatic perspectives for parents now homeschooling their parents due to the pandemic.