I showed them a short film I found on Kanopy in yesterday’s class. It was an Oscar nominated short about a kids choir in Hungary where the teacher instructed certain […]

so now it is colonel tom parker and elvis presley, rene angelil and celine dion, brian epstein and the beatles, george harrison and monty python, jerry weintraub and john denver. […]

A couple things staggering when following news stories. The first is unmasking the corruption of whoever is in power but the second is how the most articulate exposure dose not […]

Now, on the piano, I definitely now know From Me To You in French, “des bises des moi pour toi”. I can’t say every word I’m singing I understand, but […]

A girl dropped the class this morning because her family is moving. I will miss her, she wrote some excellent pieces. My favourite being last week, a poem about the […]

About ten years ago I got an email with a pitch to pay 15k for someone to market your music into enormous guaranteed worldwide success. Later, I wrote it up […]

Last month a student shared her feelings of rejection after a critical review for an event she played at school. The critics shared unkind observations and their words cut deep, […]

I saw a tribute to Jeff Beck online by Rod Stewart, Ron Wood and Eric Clapton. I don’t associate any of those three with Jeff Beck’s musical aesthetic but whatever, […]

Listened to mathematician, physicist and hedge fund manager Eric Weinstein, in an interview about AI on the Triggernometry podcast. His smirk and focus reminds me of Carmaig de Forest. I […]

I like doing research but what exactly isn’t research? I finished the book on Celine Dion and René Angélil and now onto Colonel Tom and Elvis. This could be a […]