[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8e0fBlvEMQ?rel=0&showinfo=0] I ran across this great recording of Hélène Grimaud playing this beautiful 2nd Movement from Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A…
Really, it isn’t difficult. It just takes some time. Life…the thing that takes time. The one thing in life…
The university library where I teach a music class is right next to the music building. It is basically two…
When I was 18 years old I knew very little about the great music of the masters. It seemed like…
I am in the middle of my first semester teaching Music Appreciation to undergraduate underclassmen/women and I am experiencing conflicts…
In the book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, it talks about the use of morning pages to get started…
You see, the common man in the United States is not supposed to be ignorant. Being ignorant is inherently UN-American.
It is easy to get carried away with the rip-tides and undercurrents in life’s turbulent seas. It seems like you swim and swim then look towards the shore and see that you have gone backwards, moved farther away and gotten tired of fighting the waters of time in what once was your life’s purpose.
Being alone means you can remove the world’s bullshit and finally discover who you are.
(Click here to read an excerpt written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1838, which I found about 15 minutes after…