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 […]

I was in the car with my father driving in winter. It was nighttime we were on Wellington Crescent and turned left on Dorchetster when Psycho Killer came over the […]

I didn’t understand the lyrics to the song the young woman in the songwriting class submitted and so I asked. She said it was about the fact that everyone is […]