Socrates and Plato walked through the Agora when they encountered a crowd gathered around a curious bronze box. From within came music. Not merely melodies. Entire symphonies. Love songs. Funeral […]

John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong found themselves seated on a park bench overlooking a city. Music drifted through the air from every direction. None of the musicians were visible. ARMSTRONG: […]

Socrates was sitting beneath an olive tree when a man appeared wearing round purple glasses, black clothes, several silver crosses, and an expression suggesting he had survived both history and […]

The two musicians tuned quietly before the rehearsal. The bassist wore a black-and-white keffiyeh around his neck. The pianist a Star of David. For several minutes neither mentioned either one. […]

“Open a little wider,” said the dentist. The musician obeyed. “No, that’s an E-flat,” said the dentist. “I need more of an F.” The musician attempted to laugh but was […]

Part of being a musician is periodically lobbing your little paper airplane over impossible fences just to see where it lands. Sometimes it drops immediately into a decorative fountain. Sometimes […]

The monkey played harmonicabeside the highway diner sign,small hands gripping metallike a secret he could almost translate. Truckers stopped laughing first.Then the children.Then even the waitress carrying coffeepaused beneath the […]

We went to Ikea for dinner on Valentines day. It was a good choice. Trays sliding forward like well behaved measures in 4/4. No candlelight. Just mashed potatoes, lingonberry sauce, […]

The piece I wrote for the German magazine called Improfil came out this month. It’s odd everything is in German yet my article remains in English. Earlier they told me […]