Right now we are leaving Kusadasi and heading towards Rhodes. Tonight is a show that’s done every cruise, either after leaving Kusadasi on the 10 day cruise, or the night we are in port at Istanbul on the 11 day cruise.
Besides the “Welcome Aboard”…
The Inner Game of Tennis…
By W. Timothy Gallwey
This book was very helpful to me. This book, along with Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner, was required for a class all freshmen in the tuba studio at FSU were required to take their first semester,
I played an audition gig this last week near Chicago. This is the kind of audition I talked about in a previous post…, about actors auditioning for musicals.
I’ve been accompanying auditions for around 12 years now, so I’ve done a good number of
Congratulations and good luck to R., a friend and reader of CCSM, who recently landed a piano gig on a ship running eastern Caribbean cruises for the winter. As I told him, I couldn’t be more excited if I were going myself. R. has been…
Continue Reading →I’ve never seen this site before: www.artisthousemusic.org…. It seems like a pretty good resource for musicians – especially for the business side of things.
Check out this video from that site. It’s an interview with the music supervisor from Carnival Cruise Lines about working
There was a question a few weeks ago from Ryan:
What do you do about taxes? Are they automatically deducted, or do you just get cash and expected to 1099 everything? I’ve heard some people say you only get paid cash, some say you can…
Starkey asks:
I have a question on beards and mustaches. Whats the story?
Hi Starkey – I assume you mean if, and to what degree, beards and moustaches are allowed for crew members.
That’s a good question. Some companies in the hospitality and entertainment business…
Our friend Steven is leaving very soon for a cruise ship gig that’ll take him all over the western hemisphere. He starts in the Baltic, drops down to the Mediterranean, trans-Atlantic’s it over to NYC, up to Canada, then down to the Caribbean. Not bad,…
Continue Reading →I’ve talked to a few musicians lately about repertoire lists, so I thought I’d write a little about that.
There’s a theory that I recently read about in the book This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession…. The idea
The government may not acknowledge it, but it does seem like the U.S. is in an economic crisis…. Mortgages are a mess, the U.S. dollar is weak, and oil prices are as unstable as oil supply. I’m not expert enough to know exactly how
Continue Reading →Here’s something I’m kind of glad to see -
Marco at Oceanbound (a hiring agency) writes on his blog that one-man-bands are on the way out… of the cruise ship entertainment industry. He sites the emergence of karoake as one of the factors in their
I’ve heard about this video before. I had to take a safety training class in Honolulu a few weeks ago and they talked about this. If I remember right, the first officer hit a reef as the ship came into Santorini and the ship started…
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