To study Music is to study the Self ~ Shunryu Suzuki
Posted in Culture, Habits of Mind on Mar 20th, 2012
Two significant cultural items on our relationship to sound have come out recently. Last Sunday the New York Times Magazine had a long piece – Is Silence Going Extinct? – […]
Posted in Culture on Jun 25th, 2011
The morning after New York has passed Marriage Equality is an occasion sufficiently momentous to depart from my usual topics, so I’d like to try my hand at some social […]
Posted in Arts Advocacy, Conducting, Culture, Performance on May 8th, 2011
I just wanted to take a quick break from studying Mahler 1 to tell you how jazzed and amazed I am at the energy and excitement around the concert of […]
Posted in Arts Advocacy, Culture on Apr 24th, 2011
The crisis experienced in recent months by the Syracuse Symphony is unfortunately reflected in other places – Detroit, where the orchestra took a 23% pay cut after a six-month strike; […]
Posted in Arts Advocacy, Culture on Apr 15th, 2011
The musicians of the Syracuse Symphony are vital cultural infrastructure crucial to the cultural vitality of all of Central New York, not only Syracuse itself. I personally find unacceptable the notion that this area cannot support a full time orchestra.