are thoughts just as alive
Dianne’s song sung at the open stage about thoughts stayed with me long after. She sung that they were cellular with a judgemental agenda that almost always gets its way, […]
jerome
Sort of makes sense I didn’t fall asleep, considering the Earl Grey an hour before bed. But then again, I do have coffee late sometimes and still fall asleep. Perhaps […]
hambone
The song I have been working on, now has a middle section that slaps the ear around differently than everything stated first. Perhaps considering the initial motifs display combinations of […]
art
I showed them a short film I found on Kanopy in yesterday’s class. It was an Oscar nominated short about a kids choir in Hungary where the teacher instructed certain […]
george and monty
so now it is colonel tom parker and elvis presley, rene angelil and celine dion, brian epstein and the beatles, george harrison and monty python, jerry weintraub and john denver. […]
same as it ever was
A couple things staggering when following news stories. The first is unmasking the corruption of whoever is in power but the second is how the most articulate exposure dose not […]
oui caroline
Now, on the piano, I definitely now know From Me To You in French, “des bises des moi pour toi”. I can’t say every word I’m singing I understand, but […]
bye esmerelda
A girl dropped the class this morning because her family is moving. I will miss her, she wrote some excellent pieces. My favourite being last week, a poem about the […]
goodwill
About ten years ago I got an email with a pitch to pay 15k for someone to market your music into enormous guaranteed worldwide success. Later, I wrote it up […]
nightmare
Last month a student shared her feelings of rejection after a critical review for an event she played at school. The critics shared unkind observations and their words cut deep, […]