Papagena Originally uploaded by violscraper Early tomorrow morning I’ll be leaving for the trip of a lifetime to New York City to see the Metropolitan Opera perform Mozart’s Magic Flute. I became a big opera fan about thirty years ago, when I could hear better (not perfectly, just Read More
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On the Road Again
April 6th, 2010 by Please face me, I read lips
Posted in Hard-of-Hearing, Hearing Loss, Late-Deafened, Music |
In Which We Enjoy Ourselves
November 16th, 2009 by Connor's Song
The Best of The Northwest arts and crafts show was a lot of fun! Actually, Jer and I enjoyed it a lot more than we thought we would. We were a little worried about the crowds and the fact that previous arts and crafts shows we’ve been to have had fairly narrow aisles not conducive to Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, Music, SEE |
Ballet
September 22nd, 2009 by i love you
Source: flicker I used to take BBO (British Ballet Organization) for 9-10 years before I finally gave it up. It was watching my sister do ballet which encouraged me to start – I was dancing by the age of 5 doing both grade and solo work. I completed 9 levels (there are 11 levels) and had Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Music |
Anything Can Happen If You Let It!
September 20th, 2009 by Show of Hands
Off to see MARY POPPINS again (for the fourth time) tonight before she flies out of town to the next stop on the tour – but first, the review from Sunday 9/13 with the interpreters! How did it compare, seeing the show twice without interpreters to actually seeing it with interpreters? I Read More
Posted in ASL, Deaf, Music |
Deaf and Music Part #1a: Growing up with Music Part 1
September 7th, 2009 by Life Is About Creating Yourself
There have been some ongoing discussions among fellow deaf buddies about music. It made me think about how music has played a role in my life growing up even though I’m profoundly deaf. I’m going to break this post up into a few posts over the next few weeks instead of making a super Read More
Posted in Deaf, Education, Music, Music |
Deaf performer uses his heart to hear
August 29th, 2009 by The Orange Deafie
Source Link – Deaf performer uses his heart to hear The only thing that actor-dancer, Romalito “Rome” Mallari, is deficient in is his ability to hear. The 29-year-old De La Salle-College of St. Benilde deaf scholar turns in a stunning performance in Mike Sandejas’ Cinemalaya crowd Read More
Posted in Deaf, Music |
Musica wants you to help find the Greatest Song for Deaf Awareness Week
August 26th, 2009 by The Orange Deafie
Source Link – Musica wants you to help find the Greatest Song for Deaf Awareness Week n celebration of Deaf Awareness week, Musica is giving hearing aids to four hearing-impaired children at the Carel du Toit Centre, an organisation working to help hearing-impaired children develop their Read More
Posted in Deaf, Hearing Loss, Music |
Making himself heard
August 24th, 2009 by The Orange Deafie
Source Link – Making himself heard Romalito Mallari, or Rome, was born deaf – and he is proud of it! All the more now that he is gaining fame for his portrayal of a deaf person in “Dinig Sana Kita,” one of the entries in the 2009 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. “Dinig Sana Read More
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Miss Deaf Utah on her way to fulfilling dreams
August 18th, 2009 by The Orange Deafie
Source Link – Miss Deaf Utah on her way to fulfilling dreams Natisha Luke believes in the positive nature of life, something she credits to her Mormon upbringing. “I try to focus on my abilities rather than my disability,” she said. Although she lost her hearing as a newborn because of an Read More
Posted in ASL, Advocacy, Deaf, Education, Music, Uncategorized |
A Ragtime Update
January 16th, 2009 by Ragtime Piano!
A little update here for ya’ll. There are many ragtime and novelty rag piano pieces I am playing/working on right now but I plan to video-tape myself over the next several months or so while I continue to practice and get up to speed on a few pieces. Some pieces I’m in the memorization Read More
