You know how, when you are practicing, you need to have your metronome on your stand and turn it constantly up and down as you work through a technical passage? Continue readingPractice+ App – and my FIRST EVER GIVEAWAY
Experience Counts
It’s fun to be a grownup. It’s fun to be good at something. I love it when I can feel my own progress. Daphnis et Chloé,by Ravel, is a monumentalContinue readingExperience Counts
Everyone Makes Mistakes
I’ve been home for four whole days now, and I’m still feeling inspiration from my IDRS visit. Today I’m thinking about mistakes. Everyone made some. I heard 17 individual soloistsContinue readingEveryone Makes Mistakes
IDRS 2014 – Day Two and OUT
I’m writing my Day Two report while all of my colleagues and friends, new and old, are well into their Day Three experience. I was terribly sad to leave NYC,Continue readingIDRS 2014 – Day Two and OUT
IDRS 2014 – Day One
It’s too much. How can you see it all? When there are two and three and four events happening simultaneously, all over the campus in multiple buildings, and when soContinue readingIDRS 2014 – Day One
IDRS 2014 Day Zero
I arrived in NYC yesterday after one of those ghastly get-up-at-3:45-to-drive-to-the-airport mornings, and the first thing that happened is…nothing. I successfully navigated transit to arrive at the NYU address givenContinue readingIDRS 2014 Day Zero