2020-3 The Death Class: A True Story About Life by Erika Hayasaki (2014) Simon and Schuster. I love libraries. Lately, I have been spending more time there, looking through the shelves to see what works in the cover, title, subjects…what sells a book to a reader? And then, to lots of readers? Although I was […]
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“Visions Take Flight” is a debut album by River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, lovingly known in Houston as ROCO. I have been a member of ROCO since 2014, and participated in the recording of this album. It’s very uniquely ROCO in that all five pieces on the album were commissioned by ROCO, and chosen to be
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The working title of my book is “Why Piano Now?: How it Hurts, and How it Heals.” Loosely based on my dissertation, “To See Music in Your Mind’s Eye: The Genesis of Memorization as a Piano Performance Practice” (2017), the book sheds light on some of the dark side of the history of Western classical
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It’s important to celebrate success. It builds confidence. It makes your job even more fun. And it makes you look forward to the next, and beyond. And success can teach you things, too. We tend to look to mistakes and failures for lessons, but we should be able to draw as much, if not more,
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The NAMM show is an annual event held at the Anaheim Convention Center. NAMM stands for National Association of Musical Merchants. According to Wikipedia, it’s ”the world’s largest trade-only event for the music products, pro audio and event tech industry.” And according to NAMM’s own website, this year it hosted “more than 115,000 registrants from
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