“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Panama Journal on Jul 7th, 2008
Yesterday afternoon, at 4:00 PM, I went to the Lyons Gimnasium to watch the Costa Rican orchestra. It was the Universidad Nacional Orchestra from San Isidro, Costa Rica. It was a great event. I am so sorry you missed it and apologize that I didn’t give it a better write-up, when I posted the announcement [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jun 15th, 2008
The Living In Potrerillos blog has a video of Allison Staff, who is the 11 year old young lady from Chiriquí, that won the national singing competition in Panama City. If you missed getting to see here perform, as I did, this will provide a small substitute.
Recent posts, in the same blog, have other videos [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Mar 15th, 2008
Posted in Panama Journal on Feb 25th, 2008
If you ever get an invitation to go to one of Señorita Lucy’s / Viajes Crisol’s special happenings, don’t miss it. I returned from Costa Rica on the 17th in time to attend an event that Señorita Lucy held that she called “Vibraciones musicales entre amigos”.The thing I really enjoy, about these functions, is [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Nov 12th, 2007
The following upcoming event also occurred last year and it was very good. I probably won’t go this year, since I went last year. Someone else can take the photos this year. If you like jazz, you may want to consider the Moon Valley Jazz Festival. Here is last year’s post.Here is the information from [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Nov 3rd, 2007
My neighbor was serenaded just like usual on this holiday. Here is last year’s post, which included videos.
Recently I had another Internet music provider (Slacker) stop providing music in Panama. It followed suit with my previous provider (Pandora). If you live in the US, both of these services are still available.
With this latest defection, I decided to find out what was available to me using a UBUNTU music player. I installed Amarok, [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Jun 8th, 2007
Tomorrow at 7:30 PM you can see live jazz, with the group Tropical Jazz.
Antonio M. Singh will be broadcasting the performance live on his radio show. I enjoyed the last jazz evening I had at Café Romero.
Café Romero is located in the Romero’s in Dolegita.
Posted in Panama Journal on May 4th, 2007
I just tried to connect to Pandora and got this.
Dear Pandora Visitor,
We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for most listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Apr 29th, 2007
I was saddened when I learned today that the Copyright Royalty Board made an official ruling in late March that will hike royalty rates by 300 to 1200 percent, retroactive to January 1, 2006.
This irresponsible decision will kill all sites such as Pandora and Slacker. For more information, see the following site which has been [...]
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