A few years ago, I discovered the writings of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, mystic, writer and peace activist, and I wrote a cycle of …
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It’s the holidays, music nerds, and you know what that means: lots of music! And that could be good news or bad, depending on the …
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I don’t like to admit this, but I am old enough to remember when MTV just played music videos. I know, it’s hard to believe …
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A frequent complaint about classical music performances is that they’re too formal and stuffy, with a complicated, unspoken code of etiquette that makes new listeners …
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Here’s my Twitter timeline from Day 2 of The Future of Music Policy Summit. (Click here for collected tweets from Day 1.) After attending this …
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The Future of Music Policy Summit was so packed with vital info and memorable quotes — I tweeted my thumbs off and still didn’t capture …
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Greetings from Washington, D.C., music nerds! I am here to attend the Future of Music Policy Summit, which addresses a side of the music profession …
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Confession: in addition to being a music nerd, I am a hardcore NPR nerd. So I am intimately familiar with the agony of the pledge …
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McDoc and I have moved around a lot; in seven years of marriage, we’ve lived in three states, and our honeymoon consisted of a road …
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At about 9 o’clock Wednesday evening, I found myself enraptured by the voice of a man in a janitor’s jumpsuit, as he sang “Una furtiva …
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