I am not a quitter. Okay, that’s a lie. That’s what I want people to think of me. That’s what I’d like to think of myself. The truth is, I have immense shame about my lily-livered quitting nature. From a very young age, my mother has admonished me for quitting: “You always give up so [...]
At Music10 this past June, one of the conversations that seemed to keep going from day to day and among many different groups of people was a discussion about the meaning of dynamics. We may know what the Italian words forte and piano technically mean, but how do performers interpret them on their instruments? How [...]
George Perle died yesterday. I didn’t know him well but, his passing has made me sad and nostalgic. As a member of a new music ensemble which prides itself on performing works of living composers, George’s death is significant. He is the first composer who has written for us, with whom we have had the [...]
