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You Don’t Have to Be So Serious to Be Taken Seriously
Classical music is serious business. Right? All those tiny notes, all that counting, all that Italian. Very serious stuff, indeed. Many of us have spent years before teachers, adjudicators, and in competitions proving…
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Is Bigger Better?
The Western world is obsessed with size. Go big or go home. Be a big deal. Make the big time. And though these are just idioms, the sentiment carries over into the world…
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A Beautiful Mind: Intelligence and Attractiveness
We’ve discussed many traits of attractiveness on this blog. Loyalty, empathy, compassion, adventurousness… these are all personal characteristics that can be developed, given practice. Today’s topic, intelligence, is a bit of a sticky…
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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…
