Mind the Gap
Interesting comments from Yo Mama .At the Butts in the Seats blog, the author writes about recent comments by Yo Yo Ma as televised...
Lessons Learned from My Cats
Big things in little packages.
Tigger-Poo and Mr. Tribble were rescued as kittens from our local Humane Society. They are members of our family and...
On Incentive and Reward
This video raises a number of questions in terms of incentive and personal drive in music education and in the music business in general.
While...
Quote from Benjamin Franklin
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
This is one good reason for visiting web sites like Horn Matters, reading horn-related texts...
Hornist Motivations: Bucket Lists, etc.
A post yesterday on the Hornisten der Berliner Philharmoniker Facebook page brought to mind a point worth making about motivations for horn players. The specific post...
Mindfulness
Play with reckless abandon. Like you haven't a care in the world.
This is a mindset learned from more than one teacher and is one...
A Memory from High School
A newspaper clipping from years past.
Thanks to a Facebook friend from high school, I have this newspaper clipping from the early 1980's. It was...
Putting it into Perspective
Sometimes you just suck.
Its one of those days where one or more things are not going right. It could be a physical problem -...
Another Meaning to Concentration
Like an apple a day.
Some of the best practices techniques involve thinking (and playing) outside of the box. The well-known teacher, pedagogue and performer...