GRECCHINOIS
Back to School
…With no endless scroll to distract, family time in Greece meant I was able to immerse myself in book after book on the beach and navigate a foreign culture and language, all allowing my imagination and creativity to flourish. With no screens to hide behind, weeks at arts camp meant focused musical practice, intensive rehearsals in the theatre, and learning how to push through the boundaries of my naturally introverted tendencies to navigate the hyperstimulating social scene of brilliant…
Gods of the Earth
…Experiencing song, both as a listener and as a performer, is to live the experience William Blake conjures in the opening lines of his Auguries of Innocence: “to see a world in a grain of sand”. It is like looking through a kaleidoscope.…
Becoming a Lake
…Watching the debate rage on through this midterm cycle isn’t only exciting, it’s a sign that America still values dissent, and that the process of disagreement teaches us to value people who don’t share all our beliefs. Hopping between summer festivals, I’ve been struck by how intensely my colleagues will debate.…
Two Divine Images
On Blake, Vaughan Williams, and Our Fractured Moment
…But in such a bewildering moment, where the fractures that divide us seem increasingly impossible to heal, it makes me wonder: what does our “better angel” look like? As the chaos whips up more…
Bach, Multiplicity, and Interpretation
In Bach, multiplicity can be generous: the same melodic idea can turn inward or outward, penitential or theatrical, depending on tempo, ensemble, and context. In public life, that same multiplicity can feel bewildering or dangerous. But in both cases, we’re confronted with the fact that meaning is not simply a matter of taste or preference, nor is it singular and fixed…
IN YOUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The text threads in my phone today are filled with melancholy, angry, depressed variations on the same theme: that most of the people who have my phone number simply do not have the heart to celebrate American Independence Day today.
I’ve always felt pretty mixed about the way we celebrate this anniversary of America’s birth…
TWENTY YEARS
I don’t remember what I did on the evening of September 10, 2001. Whatever it was, I was so tired that I recall blearily resolving to skip my early dance class at the Manhattan School of Music on the morning of the 11th, just days into the fall semester…
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