Find Your People
Thanksgiving is about being with your people: the ones who make you feel all right.
Big & Little
Often it’s the diction that matters as much as the content.
Awards Come & Awards Go
What’s the right range of emotions to feel around awards and honors?
How It Makes Me Feel
Program music like you choose your menu for Thanksgiving.
Mature/Sophisticated
I’ve revised my list of what I’ll use as landmarks of choral sophistication.
Mature Sound
What do we mean when was ask a youth choir for a more mature sound?
When Conditions Are Right
We can make plans, and we can lay out when we intend to teach things, but the right time to teach is when conditions are right.
Always Simpler/Essential Complexity
The longer I write, the simpler I try to be.
Correcting What You Hear
The process of transferring what you hear to paper is not always reliable.
Creativity’s Demands
I could never write in a coffee shop. Because my creativity has some demands.