Articles
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Providing Context and Relevance in the Performance of Classical Music
Classical musicians are often accused of playing nothing but dead white men’s music. And though it’s true that much of the repertoire that appears in classical music programs were written by white men…
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Benign Advice, Profoundly Mistaken
I can’t get enough of Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talk of 2006. It’s old, and the reason it is still relevant is because his topic – how Education has got it terribly wrong…
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How To Be a Compassionate Classical Performer
Compassion is empathy in action. It’s about more than appreciating how others are feeling. It’s the sympathetic understanding of other people’s distress, coupled with a real desire to alleviate it. Compassion is an…
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Why Are Classical Music Audiences Old, and Should We Care?
There is a lot of talk these days about the advancing age of classical music audiences. In truth, this conversation has been happening for quite some time. We’ve been hearing about it lately,…
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Nurture Your Music and Watch Your Audience
Nurturing brings to mind images of mothers and gardeners – people who feed and care for living things, helping them grow and develop with attention and compassion. And while it’s obvious that a…