To study Music is to study the Self ~ Shunryu Suzuki
Posted in Conducting, Practice, Random Thoughts on Jun 20th, 2012
Watching how great teachers teach is to take the study of a discipline (in this case conducting) to a meta level, studying teaching itself. Here follow some spontaneous and random […]
Posted in Habits of Mind, Random Thoughts on Jan 12th, 2011
I offer a koan for winter – obviously a variation on a classic: What is the sound of snow falling? I came up with this last night, with the thought […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Nov 25th, 2010
Like most holidays, Thanksgiving gives us a chance to be reflective, which of course I love. Musicians think in musical terms – about relationships between pitches and harmonies, rhythmic patterns […]
Posted in Random Thoughts on Nov 16th, 2010
It doesn’t matter how articulate or eloquent you are if you don’t have anything to say. This is true in both music and the liberal arts. In music, being hyper-expressive […]