Overcorrection
Roger screws up. As many of you know, my quartet, 4-Way, has been teaching this year at Woodford Paideia Elementary School – we’re helping out the 5th and 6th grade orchestra classes, and giving some private lessons. We’re also getting to know some of the kids we’ll...
All In The Family, Part 4 – Bach Mitzvah
In my last post, I wrote about my summer visit to my grandmother, and the importance of our music in our relationship since I was a kid. A few weeks after my trip to LA, I attended the Bar Mitzvah of the son of one of my closest friends, who also grew up in a...
All In The Family, Part 3 – LA Story
I’ve posted here before about my dad, who was central in helping me find my way to my life as a musician. Today, I want to introduce you to my mother and grandmother, who also fill their lives with music and showed me how great (and natural) that could be. When I was...
Back to School
Today, the school year begins here in Cincinnati, and as a parent of two, I couldn't be happier. Even better is the news that Cincinnati Public Schools is putting the arts front and center at two magnet elementary schools, and I'm pleased to announce that 4-Way will...
How Do You Respond?
The horrific events of last week in Louisiana, Minnesota and Texas have evoked the usual calls for healing and greater understanding - of course I hope that those calls are heeded, though the number of times they've been made in recent years suggests that they're not...
Your Experience May Vary
One of the amazing things about music is that we all experience it in our own way - two concertgoers, or even two members of the group playing, can have wildly different reactions to the same performance. In ensemble playing, as I've noted before, this is both the...