Myles Temesi Hawken Project 2025

Earlier in the school year, I stumbled upon a set of lectures given by Leonard Bernstein titled "The Unanswered Question Series." These lectures examined, in a deep, thoughtful manner, the intricacies within classical music. Specifically, Leonard Bernstein discussed topics such as musical syntax, phonology, semantics, ambiguity, and even the philosophical implications of tonality. These lectures furthered my interest in exploring classical music and provoked me to try and understand it in a more profound manner. That was my inspiration for creating a lecture similar to his. Even though the lecture was heavily inspired by Leonard Bernstein, the topics I discuss within it are completely original and came from my own experiences with classical music in the past. I decided to focus the video around the question of "What is sincere music?" since this is something that has been bothering me during any time I learn or perform a piece of music. I always have to question mys...

 This blog post will concern the weekend. Specifically, Friday until today, Tuesday. Once I arrived at my house, an hour away from the Cleveland Institute of Music, I rested for the rest of the day. On Friday, I woke up early and decided to get right to editing because I knew it would be a complicated and difficult process, especially if I wanted the outcome to match the result I wanted. I uploaded all the files from my recording devices to my computer which took a solid eight hours. It was safe to say that this was the only thing I did that day because of the length of downloading time. On Saturday morning, I finally began the actual editing process. With my editor ready to go, CapCut, and the files all downloaded successfully, I felt I was ready to start piecing the takes together to form the lecture video. My goal throughout this entire editing process was to create the illusion that the video was all in one take, though with two camera angles. This required me to be very precis...

 This blog will concern Thursday of last week as well as Friday through the weekend.  On Thursday, I went to the Cleveland Institute of Music to record and film my lecture. This, by far, was the most difficult day and the day which presented far more challenges than I expected. When I arrived at the room I reserved to film it in, I realized it was going to take quite a while to set everything up. I pushed the piano into the place I wanted, hung black sheets as the backdrop, and other various things that resulted in the visual components of my video. It took me an hour and a half to set up, and by then, I had just over 4 hours to record everything. To achieve the result I wanted, it took me several takes and attempts at filming the most convincing video I could make. For instance, one of the many challenges of filming this was putting the correct accents on the words I wanted to emphasize and etc, to communicate my point more effectively. The playing components, or the “perform...