Surely there’s some music in your life that you hold in reserve, something that drills through the layers of carapace and emotional ossification and gets to your heart. When you allow yourself to hear this music it unlocks a pure…
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On Craftsmanship
I remember way back in the early days of this blog, when it was still on Vox. Jjust over four years ago the very first word of my first blog entry was “craftsmanship”. I’ve veered into baking, then home improvement,…
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Clair de Lune
I heard that the BBC radio program, Desert Island Discs, turned 70 this year. If you aren’t familiar, the concept is that famous guests are asked what album they would bring to a desert island. For me, I would bring…
Body of Movement
I used to think dance was a learned skill, a mental and physical process of beat into movement. But I’ve been wrong all these years. Dance is hard-wired into the human brain, perhaps for hundreds of thousands of years, when…
Music for Children
Even before Toddler Harbat was born we began to get music for children. Some had familiar nursery rhymes yelled out over a background of synthesized strings. One was original compositions by a woman with an average voice, a guitar, and…
It’s Ladies Night, Oh What a Night
I’ll get this out of the way for all my lady readers out there. Here he is: David garrett This is who I went to see last night: David Garrett. He’s a crossover violin player. Which means he’s a…
