Feeling All Of The Feels – Finding Expression
To feel our emotions is a challenge for many of us. During the pandemic, feeling has been tougher for even the most resilient people.
Singing Grief: What’s It Take To Make A Pandemic Choir?
Last week, I shared with you “what is a requiem?” Historically, choirs would sing most requiems accompanied by a variety of instruments. But during this pandemic, scientists have warned us that it may be dangerous to sing together. Though it does not compare to the loss of lives, the loss of live music was another
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Composing a Requiem: What Is A Requiem?
Every time I tell people that I’m composing a requiem, they almost always say, “What’s a requiem?” Well, here you go…
Long Pandemic – On Finding Our Way
We are finding our way. In my workplace and neighborhood, we’ve been responding to the pandemic for over a year. Reflecting back, it has been a strange year. In addition to some current reflections, I’ll offer you some of my other posts about the pandemic experience from the past year. Remembering Loved Ones Gone No
Loneliness and the Power of Convergence
The pandemic has led to so many challenges for creatives and human beings in general. Yet there is also a convergence coming out of it.
Upright Blues – improvising on practice pianos
Imagine this with me: it’s summertime. We’re on the campus of a university with a large music school. Let’s Play Upright In each of several buildings, there are dozens of practice rooms. In each of them stands an upright piano. Now, these pianos have been overheated in the summer. There is nothing to control the
On Moving My Parents Across the Country
My parents just moved across the USA. Little did I know how ‘moving” this journey would be when we started it.
B5 video: An organ, a play on words, and a request
An organ, a play on words, and a request
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Melting – an #improv #poem
“Melting” a spontaneously created poem by Stan Stewart. Follow his word meanderings into the feeling of this moment.