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Years earlier he’d played with a drummer he despised. The drummer rushed. Not dramatically. Perhaps three beats per minute over the course of a song. Nobody in the audience noticed. […]

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You cannot decide beforehand what the other musician is about to play and then congratulate yourself for responding to it. Then you are playing with a person who exists mainly […]

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Mara had the kind of depression that didn’t always look like depression. She answered emails. She bought groceries. She laughed at jokes. She could play a ninety-minute concert and talk […]

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A very nice show in Wolfville, back at the Al Whittle Theatre. Beforehand, I had convinced myself that perhaps three people had bought tickets. It turned out to be thirty. […]

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I did not sleep well in my hotel room in Truro, Nova Scotia. The sheets gave off the unmistakable scent of a hotel trying to establish an alibi. This is […]

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I was reading about a university in South Korea rejecting applicants who had excellent test scores because of bullying incidents in their past. On one hand, good. There ought to […]

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The Port Royal/ Annapolis show was uniquely magical. Every time you arrive somewhere and are told that advance ticket sales are already healthy, you find yourself facing the best problem […]

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After the final song at the Greenslades concert in Sackville, I walked offstage and a woman turned to me and said, “Marry me.” I believe this was less a formal […]

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When I first began teaching, I assumed the students would be interested in what I knew about music and its history. This was vanity disguised as pedagogy. They were not […]

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Hold the pose. Stay with the strange chord. Breathe into the discomfort. Do not resolve to the major. By the end, I had not become flexible or commercially viable. But […]