In some circles they say talking about your music destroys what might be powerful about it.

A composer was working on a score and outside his window traffic was blaring and construction was building. His client came to listen to how the work was proceeding and […]

I think flying is a life risking thing or to put it another way, rate of crash survival isn’t encouraging. It is always going through my head before and during […]

All the freaking out about Trump is a bit like when a person tries to quit smoking or lose weight and they are obsessed with how they keep insisting their […]

You can’t do anything with intellectually understanding you are not here. you can be walked through understanding it. you can be shown that the brain generates words for itself to […]

I made friends with some heavy characters in high school, I think I sought them out partly because I had spent 9 years in Jewish Schools – couldn’t take it […]

I saw a certain producer abuse engineers. It was disturbing.  Hissy fits and anger management. All entitlement, all the time. The minimum wage engineers would lose jobs if they responded […]

The new piece is coming along. The trick is whatever the right hand does the left must also do. It’s a challenge of one’s thinking, of one’s habits but the […]

Anthony from Sault St. Marie traveled to Burlington to sit at the feet of the great accordionist Snips Walker. Snips taught many people who achieved greatness like vibes player Ben […]