How Classical Music Changed my Life When I was a teenager, I remember listening to popular music and waiting around for something I liked. I listened to the radio night after night, wondering what all the fuss about music was Read More …
I am happy to speak to your group or school. I can tailor my speech length from twenty minutes upwards. Topics: Classical Music and Education Why Classical Music? Classical Music and Your Health (can be tailored to specific health conditions) Read More …
If you haven’t been keeping up, the Fort Worth Symphony musicians are on strike. Performances are cancelled until the strike is resolved. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, in a nutshell, the musicians took a pay cut Read More …
The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole. —William Shakespeare, As You Like It If you’re not familiar with the Dunning-Kruger Effect, it simply states that incompetent people, because they lack the Read More …
A compelling and mesmerizing production of Don Giovanni, directed by Peter Sellars, and featuring the magnificent Eugene Perry as Don Giovanni, and his equally-magnificent twin brother, Herbert Perry, as Leporello, which unfortunately eclipses the wonderful Elmore James as Masetto. Make Read More …
As of tomorrow, you’ll be able to find a “Today in Music History” Calendar at the foot of each page of the blog. I’m doing my best to keep up a fairly stiff pace on the entries, but so far Read More …
I’ve spent the last month doing a lot of research for two new projects for this site to be launched on January 1st, and I’ve run across some major headaches in promoting the work of local and international classical music groups. Read More …
Where can you find sheet music? Fortunately, with the exception of certain compositions enumerated in Golan v. Holder, anything published before January 1st, 1923 is in the public domain in the United States. No more works will enter the public Read More …
A tune called “L’homme armé” was all the rage in Europe in the middle of the 15th century. Guillaume Dufay, who, along with several other composers, wrote a mass based on that tune, lived across the street from a bar Read More …
Jump in. Try to stump me or just get the answer to something you’ve always wondered about. Some questions may, over time, be moved to a different page, like the “Rarely Asked Questions” or “Really Obscure Questions”, or some name Read More …
