Carla McElhaney performing at a house concert by Revel. Revel, a chamber arts collective in Austin strives to make classical music more personal through house concerts like this. Photo courtesy of Carla McElhaney.
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How have advances in music affected musicians?
By Benjamin Cai
ustin is called the Live Music Capital of the World and many Austinites are musicians themselves. Technologies have helped composers work and musicians learn faster. Musicians often use online tools such as databases like IMSLP that offer free sheet music and recordings for performers to use, platforms such
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as YouTube that give performers and composers another way to expand their audience and make profit and software like Sibelius allow composers to create samples which can be used to pick out the problems. For pianist and teacher, Carla McElhaney, technology was what introduced her to music. “When I was very little, three, I was watching a children’s television program called Captain Kangaroo,”
McElhaney said. “It’s a little before your time, but there was a puppet bunny rabbit, who was a regular character on the show.” Although Mr. Bunny Rabbit’s time on the show was wordless, McElhaney said he was funny, witty, wise, and always playing jokes on the captain. “One day they had a skit of him dressed up in a little tuxedo, playing the piano, and he was going up and
