I’ve told the students to call me Bob but they don’t. It’s Professor or Dr. Wiseman or Sir, that they default to. It’s the culture here. When I started teaching […]

At this point I am familiar with a variety of soy chai lattes from $3 to $7.50 and the best is the one at the George Chuvalo Community Centre which […]

Gave the class an ethical dilemma. Suppose you know a musician whose career has taken off and they’re playing to thousands. And you hear they’re soon touring Europe and you […]

Some of the song writing students speak up about the problem of selling out as if this is something one needs to be concerned with, when one is studying the […]

was listening to a song without knowing what it was and liked it. when i looked up the writer, turned out it was by someone i never liked. should i […]

Ben Yehudi and those who followed him said music was the mystical hoofbeat. In Kiev in the seventeenth century, Rabbi Ben-Yehudi studied Kabbala with his daughter Rochel and Malta, their […]

There was a Winnipeg restaurant where I was a dishwasher as a teenager, Ruggi’s, and we had a juke box with an interesting cross section of tunes. There were a […]

Dear Bob, Thank you for your beautiful book, which I really enjoyed. First off let me say I am very impressed with whoever designed the cover and back cover, beautiful. […]

Buckminster Fuller was kicked out of Harvard (twice). R. Murray Schafer was kicked out of the University of Toronto school of music. Amy Winehouse kicked out of performance school. Einstein […]

One student is a hip hop producer, I like his work because I can’t figure out the order of things he does when he composes his pieces. The more I […]