To coincide with the First Night of the 122nd Proms Festival, the BBC has commissioned a project that showcases music in a different way: projection of musical imagery onto the face of a 300-yr old cello. The soloist in the opening concert – Sol Gabetta – agreed to...
Of course, none of us knew, a week ago, what this past week would hold. The unexplainable violence. The continuing litany of names of those killed with guns. The shedding of blood in parking lots, on street corners, and inside cars! The sons and husbands and daddys...
I listened to Krista Tippett interviewing Pauline Boss this week. Ms. Boss is a writer and therapist who established a new field of research on grieving when she coined the phrase “ambiguous loss.” She realized that there are many, many types of loss that lack the...
Strip away all of the electronics. Abandon the floodlights and the mosh pit. Get close enough to your audience to see the whites of their eyes. Focus your energy on the simple and the significant. This is how NPR’s Tiny Concerts are formed. The videos show the...
The earth echoes with sound – from the silent reverberation of air waves, to the crashing of the ocean waves on a rocky shore. Waves ebb and flow. They respond to other waves and are affected by solid and moving elements that stand in their way. Some things amplify...
In 1995, I lived in London, England for 10 weeks, on an exchange of sorts. I went to London to observe and assess a program initiated by the Guildhall School of Music. Their instructors had developed a new model of training professional orchestral musicians to...
