I may be one of the last composers who still writes with a pencil and paper. Since we're moving to England this month, we had to get rid of a lot of things, and many boxes of my scribblings were…
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May 13 2024
I may be one of the last composers who still writes with a pencil and paper. Since we're moving to England this month, we had to get rid of a lot of things, and many boxes of my scribblings were…
Read moreMar 21 2021
During the first 200 years of the viola's existence, it was doing mostly what it was invented to do: doubling vocal parts. Now, more than 500 years later, many believe the viola is still the…
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Originally posted on 1/31/20 as 'Artist-in-Residence' for the American Viola Society:
People seem to like an agreed-upon authority to magnify their already pre-existing opinions.
Whether cherry-picking from the Constitution or the bible, it's not merely their own little opinion now---…
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Originally posted on 1/10/20 as 'Artist-in-Residence' for the American Viola Society:
No, there's no punchline. It can sometimes be tricky to define where the line is, and in a sense, there's a low bar to claiming any of it. Once…
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