Practice makes perfect … you may have heard this phrase, especially if you took music lessons when you were young. There’s only one problem with this phrase: there’s no such thing as perfect. Perfect is not the goal of practice because perfect is not possible....
If we understood the world, we would realise that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances. — Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) is the patron saint of Finnish music, the composer who, more than any other, has described for...
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. — Frederick Delius Although born in England, Delius spent almost all of his adult creative life in France and Germany. His style reflects the recognizable, pastoral meanderings of other...
Can music make us better people? Clearly, Handel wrote with this purpose in mind; he believed it was possible to write music that would inspire and transform. Handel’s many works based on scripture have had profound effects on generations of musicians and...
I believe now more than ever that singing is a universal, built-in mechanism designed to cultivate empathy and compassion. — Eric Whitacre Research has shown that simply by looking and smiling at each other, moms and babies synchronize their heartbeats to...
It’s the group sound that’s important, even when you’re playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That’s jazz. — Oscar Peterson Canadian jazz pianist...
