Welcome to the website of Heather Buchman – conductor, trombonist, educator, arts advocate. For many years I’ve been exploring the What, How, and Why of classical music as a discipline, profession, and life path, and have found the perspectives of Zen and Tao to resonate particularly well with the artist’s path. In the blog much of my writing is an attempt to make some coherent observations from that perspective. I also write about the place of the arts in our culture more broadly, as well as in the liberal arts.
WHAT’S COMING UP:
The Hamilton College Orchestra’s first fall performance is Saturday, October 22 at 8 pm in Wellin Hall; the program will include music of Beethoven and Marc Mellits. On Thursday, December 8, HCO will perform the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Allison Eck, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5
On February 12, 2012, I will be conducting the Society for New Music’s return production of Persis Parshall Vehar’s opera Eleanor Roosevelt at Hamilton College.
It is a great pleasure to read your entries on practicing and discipline in one’s life as well as in one’s music making. Your playing embodies much of what you write, and is an effective witness to the truth contained in the principles you expound. You will find me nosing around your website again.