Manhattan School of Music

Where’s the Magic in Your Music?

Finding the magic: as performers, we spend our whole careers striving to bring magic to audiences. We chase after our ideal imagined performances and hope to approximate these in our delivery. The "magic," of course, isn't about having a perfect technique or sound....

Special Thanks

MONDAY BYTES — October 17, 2016 This is a story of a voice student, mezzo Yajie Chen, who was taking an entrepreneurial career course I taught at Manhattan School of Music. And what I learned from her. Yajie came to see me during the semester and told me she thought...