Two wonderful young classical pianists whom I am privileged to know gave performances yesterday combining improvisation and classical music, perhaps simultaneously. Eric Barnhill participated in a recital at the International Dalcroze Institute in Boston. From an email he sent to friends and colleagues:
I’m here at the Dalcroze Summer Institute in Boston and the institute [...]
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 [...]
Ack.
It’s summer “vacation.” I have two months in which to take the material in this blog (and other things I’ve written) and edit it, revise it, rewrite it, etc., into the book it is meant to be and for which DePauw has given me extra money and some teaching release time over the last [...]
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