The time has come
What do we do when power seems to be taking away our voices (votes)?
Tonal Refraction for You!
Transform music from a thing to a part of you: no matter your age, instrument, or level, every sound you make and every sound you hear is yours.
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Brands and Boxes
Born with disability, I was aware from a very early age that my body did not conform to the norm: I was lopsided, there were many physical things I simply could not do. The invisible aspects of the disability were never discussed: it was probably never even imagined that they might be as or perhaps more real than the obvious.
True Community
Ours is a culture of branding.
Nowhere but in America
I knew this all along: only in America could I have had the life I have enjoyed, working with other people to build community within the realm of the greatest music imaginable.
Hard to read
"What isn't?" should perhaps be the best response to that title.
Doing democracy a favor
My thoughts today are with the 90 people in the community in Connecticut in which one ordinary-looking young man took it upon himself to contend in the Republican primary for a seat in Congress, on an outspoken platform of declaring homosexuality a crime punishable by death.
Why is Classical music so much harder than it looks?
Heaven only knows.
Art and Cartons*
That’s just an attempt at a joke: a pun on boxes plus a poor rhyme scheme.
Letting it live
If the goal in playing Mozart is to let it live, certain risks are involved.
Strings: Yours and Mine
All I have been able to retain from Monday's recording session is the very vivid sensation of how three string magician/musicians could form such a dynamic trio as to stimulate truly uninhibited dialog with the piano.
Preparation for Mozart
After a marathon day of Mozart in the company of three intense string players who get along literally like gangbusters, I have been justifiably exhausted.
Sight-reading: Recording
In a milestone session the Tonal Refraction Ensemble (Dibble, Eggar, myself) plus guest violinist Nikita Yermak, spent roughly one delicious hour sight-reading the Mozart E-flat Piano Quartet, a work none of us had ever played before in any circumstance: indeed, a work which is rarely performed.
Celebrating Survival
In just a couple of hours I will be greeting three splendid colleagues for a day devoted to the Mozart Piano Quartets.