What about you? As a musician, do you ever have the kind of dream where you're unprepared? Not the kind where you walk out on stage to play a concerto and find you prepared the wrong one. (That actually happened to pianist Maria João Pires!). And not the kind where...
What transferable skills come from music studies? What skills have you gained? And if you teach, what skills do you see your students gaining? Like shadows on the wall, transferable skills are part of the effect of the learning: there's the concrete music we learn and...
MONDAY BYTES — April 13, 2015 Musicians face rejection all the time: from auditions that don't go as we'd hoped, to a not-so-hot review or job interview, or we may just not be getting the freelance referrals that our colleagues are. Our egos end up bruised and we...
MONDAY BYTES - November 12, 2012 Here we are post-Hurricane Sandy, and many folks are still without power and heat and some are without homes or businesses. I marvel at people's capacities to endure, to rally, and to stay positive. What is it that keeps us going...
