As I turn another year older — just a couple of clicks now away from 60 — I grow more and more convinced that the single-most...
Music is impossible without silence. There is silence between every note. The best musicians learn how to play the silence as well as their instruments. There...
Let’s talk about bad bosses — the screamers, the belittlers, the tyrants who are terrified of any challenge to their throne, burdened by emotional baggage they...
Brainstorming works wonders. When we let loose a torrent of ideas, freely associating and playfully combining anything and everything that comes along, we often see past...
What Is Wisdom? Wisdom isn’t an idea. It isn’t a doctrine or a belief. It isn’t a theory or an ideology, calling for our consent. Wisdom...
There is just so much noise. We are limitless in our capacity to fill the silence with so much clutter that even God can no longer...
There are many wondrous things to behold in this brief and brilliant life. But of all the ways the infinite universe baffles our senses, defies our...
Every January I get that same, giddy feeling. Another year full of potential lies before us like uncharted territory. But there could be trouble ahead. As...
In the specialized knowledge of professional musicologists the term “classical music” has a very specific meaning. It refers to European music written between 1750-1830, usually in...
