“Today was an exceptionally beautiful California day, the kind for which we can feel extra grateful during this pandemic: ideal weather to be outside, allowing us to ease our covid isolation with a socially distanced soaking in of the sun…”
Read More“I am not one for New Year’s resolutions, but 2021 seems to be the year of setting creative challenges for myself. In addition to this 30 day challenge to blog every day this month, I decided that I would try to make a video of a song for each full moon this year, beginning with today’s full moon, which I recently learned is called the ‘snow moon’. Each song will relate to the moon in one way or another - sometimes very obviously, and perhaps sometimes less so...”
Read More“During last night’s episode of Heard Over The Piano, Sasha Cooke spoke a bit about the singer’s stigma of being a ‘good musician’. While that initially sounds like a compliment, early on in her career she had the impression that many believe that ‘being a good musician’ was really a euphemism for ‘not a good singer’…”
Read More“I had a fascinating conversation this evening with the mezzo-soprano, Sasha Cooke, as part of CAIC’s online discussion series, Heard Over The Piano. We started the series this season at CAIC in order to provide a virtual approximation of the salon-aspect of how we normally present recitals in Chicago when we are able to do live concerts. Ever since the beginning of the organization…”
Read More“Yesterday, I received news of yet another cancelation. This set of concerts was to take place towards the end of May. While I was holding out hope that the world might be reopened enough for this set of concerts to continue forward in some fashion, I was not completely surprised when the orchestra finally made the decision…”
Read More“For much of the past year, most of my Monday evenings have begun with a book club meeting. Like many people I know, as the nation descended into a spring and summer of racial reckoning in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a circle of my friends from childhood formed a book club to digest and process the concepts that we were reading about in books like…”
Read More“Monday’s return after taking a weekend can always feel a bit jarring, but today’s beginning to the work week felt especially fast-paced and action-packed. Part of the reason for that is definitely because I became distracted by my phone this morning, and lost some of the precious early hours of the day to reading the news…”
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