Thanks for the encouraging comments and email messages.
Let’s see. I had a very busy semester, at the end of which (in May) I put together an 11-concert summer chamber music series, raised a bunch of money for it, then performed in the first concert, packed my office for the move to our new [...]
I have always had difficulties bringing projects to completion. I get blocked by perfectionism and fear of rejection and ridicule. How many CD projects have I started and not completed? I get to a certain point and my mind just won’t focus on it anymore.
I’ve decided to be as open as possible [...]
To pull together all the material I’ve written here and elsewhere on improvisation, I need to have a clear audience in mind. One thing that’s had me stuck is not knowing for whom I want to write. In the blog version, I’ve been writing primarily to myself and a variety of real and [...]
I am totally blocked! Or I just can’t get into it. Perhaps there’s still some end-of-semester, start-of-summer-concert-series burnout going on.
Oh well, it will start to flow. Meanwhile, I watched a Bobby McFerrin DVD yesterday (how wonderfully inspiring), started Christopher Small’s book Music, Society, Education (I’ve become quite a Small fan over the [...]
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