Mark Northam has added the Professional Orchestration blog to the home page of Film Music Magazine. Caroline and I took a break last night and went to the movies to see Julie and Julia. The movie spoke to me on many levels, particularly Julia Child learning French to read French cookbooks and to learn French cooking.

This is almost what it’s like studying orchestration from the Koechlin books which are all written in classical French. Even French people have a hard time translating it. So I’ve been trying to translate parts of that plus Durand’s book on Composition using Google translate. Oh it’s so slow.

But I learned from the French, apparently, that their attitude is that if you want to learn from them, learn their language. In many areas the French are pinnacles of instruction, especially music and cooking. And they’re terrible at wanting to see American translations of their works.

The movie was also a good instruction set about blogging.

For the Professional Orchestration blog, I’ve felt the burden of doing mini-reviews, recommendations, comments on orchestration, et al. It felt more like a burden than a joy. So early this morning, after taking a break during July, I deleted all my categories except one.

Since for many of us orchestration requires using sample libraries and loops, too, I’ll just lump into one big verbal vat!

So there you have it: one category to rule them all!

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