When he was young, Sam played punk rock. Three chords, although on certain nights he reduced this to two because the third seemed entitled. He struck the guitar as if […]

There was a musician who wanted to become better. He knew what this required. He would have to stop returning to the things his hands already knew. Familiar music gave […]

Eli could perform before two thousand people without fear, but he could not board an airplane without becoming certain that gravity had finally noticed him. This was inconvenient because he […]

I asked the young British doctor doing the prep work if he ever lived in London. He said yes, for a couple of years, he had been a student and […]

There was a guitarist who became frightened of wrong notes. When he was young he played thousands of them and didn’t care. Later, when people began calling him serious, it […]

There was a musician who travelled from teacher to teacher asking how to find his voice, although he already possessed a voice and used it constantly to explain that he […]

There was a guitarist named Stanley who could play anything except what people wanted him to play, which made him either an artist or unemployed depending which side of the […]

Avram believed a chord existed containing the secret architecture of creation. He had heard this from an old cantor in Vilnius who had heard it from a violinist in Kraków […]

A musician named Lena was afraid of herself. This was difficult to explain. Wherever she went the person she feared arrived at the same time. She could avoid difficult promoters, […]

Shirley began as a kid on an ordinary clarinet. It appeared in school bands. It had music written specifically for it. Her parents understood what it was, more or less. […]