glass solo
There was a tweet from Bernie Sanders on July 10th from Wall Street and while speaking to the camera a UPS delivery person passes him and without interrupting pats him […]
Performing
the mind is just like this too
The orchestra auditions are done behind a curtain so that the assessment is primarily about the tone generated and the sound of the execution. To whatever extent the player might […]
losing the audience, so what
The weirdest thing happened, she found herself thinking she should make her work more understandable. Then she realized that that entailed abandoning what turned her on in the first place. […]
Memorization Anonymous
There was a songwriter who worried about forgetting their lyrics so much that when they got to the actual performance they had crippling stage fright and took the stage nervously. […]
Doing time
There was a church at Major and Bloor where myself and other pianists practised in one of two beautiful rooms for $1 an hour many years ago (hence price). One […]
free app I don’t need
I heard about an app where people partner up and watch you work on something, like your music or your writing or your cooking. They watch you do this in […]
critical swimming
A friend asked me one upon a time what I thought of her violin playing. I hate that question because I wasn’t blown away and I love this person, even […]
what she didn’t say
There is a problem between many parents and the kids. It happens once they see cartoons, captured by moving pictures. They become as insistent as kids can be when they […]
debut
Legendary songwriter poet Sahara Spracklin was at Fat Alberts open stage last night and her work figures largely on relationships, ones that didn’t work or are incomplete. Often offering ideas […]
blending in with other aliens
There once was a band that used science fiction as a theme. In their early years they had costumes, wigs and make up. As the decades passed they changed their […]