arrange • compose • conduct
The appliances you rely on daily – stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, furnace, water heater, etc. – don’t break often. They are reliable for long stretches of time, because they are (generally) built to last. When it’s time to replace one of them, though, two things are true. It needs to happen […]
In a memorable TED Talk, Apollo Robbins describes pickpocketing as the art of focusing attention. He says, I have to play with techniques to exploit this,to play with your attention as a limited resource. So if I could control how you spend your attention, if I could maybe steal your […]
What motivates busy adults with lives, families, and too many commitments (we all have too many commitments) to spend 10 hours in rehearsal, plus three performances, all in the space of two weeks? They do it for the love of music. Because they feel better, even if more tired, when […]
At any conference, I find that brain overload is a consistent challenge: so much good information, good music, good human connection gets combine with so much bad hotel sleep, bad restaurant food, bad (too busy) self care. (The ACDA National Conference, happening now in Kansas City, is among the most […]
The biannual ACDA 2019 National Conference starts tonight in Kansas City. Although I won’t be attending this year, I have many friends and colleagues who are, so I’m sharing some previews. I’ve prepared a cheat sheet of conference offerings that appeal to my particular interests: Vocal Jazz, TTBB Choirs, and Composing/Arranging. I’ll offer separate posts […]
The biannual ACDA 2019 National Conference starts tonight in Kansas City. Although I won’t be attending this year, I have many friends and colleagues who are, so I’m sharing some previews. I’ve prepared a cheat sheet of conference offerings that appeal to my particular interests: Vocal Jazz, TTBB Choirs, and Composing/Arranging. I’ll offer separate posts […]
The biannual ACDA 2019 National Conference starts tonight in Kansas City. Although I won’t be attending this year, I have many friends and colleagues who are, so I’m sharing some previews. I’ve prepared a cheat sheet of conference offerings that appeal to my particular interests: vocal jazz, TTBB Choirs, and composing/arranging. I’ll offer separate posts […]
The biannual ACDA 2019 National Conference starts tonight in Kansas City. Although I won’t be attending this year, I have many friends and colleagues who are, so I’m sharing some previews. I’ve prepared a cheat sheet of conference offerings that appeal to my particular interests: vocal jazz, TTBB Choirs, and composing/arranging. I’ll offer separate posts […]
So far, our school district has had fifteen – fifteen! – Snow Days in the 2018-19 school year. But Snow Day is a catchall phrase. We have had school canceled due to: Snow Freezing rain High winds Glaze ice Sub-zero temperatures And even, in September, heat! So it got me […]
Welcome to Week 18 of The Definitive Version, a regular feature of my website. You can read more about the project here and read all past entries here. Song: “All Of Me” (1931)Composers/Lyricists: Gerald Marks and Seymour SimonsForm: ABACStandard Key: C Major. Marks & Simons were both successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters with […]