Last class. Goes by fast when you’re old, slow when you’re young. The leaves on the High Park trees are all gone and you can see through the Savannah now. […]

In the class this morning, the song one student chose as their “song that changed your life” was Money by Pink Floyd. It surprised me to view the lyrics to […]

close my eyes listen imagine what might happen next notice i’m distracted try to stop noticing i’m distracted fight about whether i am capable of stopping noticing i’m distracted return […]

don’t know why i didn’t think of it sooner but this year in the song writing class i offered the students the choice instead of handing in essays on different […]

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 […]