We have just finished auditioning potential students for our undergraduate composition program at UCLA. Traditionally, at the end of the interview, we have not told the students our assessment of their audition. They simply found out later that they were either accepted or not. This year, I decided to give students who were way off […]
It’s interesting to see how we are mixtures of conservative and liberal. Although this is likely an overgeneralization, I look at myself and see this quite clearly.
The most stressful times of our life have to do with periods of change, and many times abrupt change. If change is associated with stress, people can easily resolve […]
Fame is a bee.
It has a song—
It has a sting—
Ah, too, it has a wing.
– Emily Dickinson
It seems there is an unspoken pressure in the education of young musicians to be “world famous.” In the mind of the masses, a classical musician wears a tuxedo, is male, has longish, tousled white (grey) hair, and is […]
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