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Those memorable experiences
Last night I experienced a concert that was everything that a concert should be. It was the second night of a local music festival called Music Now, featuring a variety of artists each night. What was it that made the concert so amazing? It was almost...
Posted: 4/22/2013 11:12 PM
Why we make music
This past weekend our school hosted its first adult chamber music workshop. We had been working on this for nine months and it was worth every minute. We had 28 amateur musicians who had been paired up in small groups. They had received their music earlier...
Posted: 3/3/2013 9:37 PM
When you fall down, get back up, brush yourself off and go forward
As teachers we know this will happen with our students. The musician who has a memory lapse during a recital, a dancer who trips while turning, and the actor who says his one line at the wrong time. And when this happens, it’s our job to persuade and...
Posted: 1/27/2013 3:52 PM
To do in 2013: DO!
Recently I was having a conversation with one of my good friends and professional colleague (note: We also walk together, which is a wonderful way to mix business, aesthetics, personal ranting, and exercise together at once!) about music, a common topic...
Posted: 1/1/2013 5:37 PM
A very satisfying musical experience
Today was our annual Gino DiMario Memorial Recital. Gino was a young student of ours who died several years ago. He loved music – he was bright, excited, creative, and eager to play. We will never know how this bright star might have achieved in music....
Posted: 10/28/2012 8:57 PM
Looking at work from the other side
So my Dance coordinator walks in my office last week and says “Why don’t you take my college beginning ballet class? It’s great exercise.” Yeah, I’m thinking. I’m over the other side of 55 and my favorite thing to do is watch our young ballet dancers...
Posted: 9/6/2012 10:07 PM
Baby Boomer Music
A few nights ago we went with friends to see the Dukes of September. If you’re a baby boomer you know them as Michael McDonald, Donald Fagin and Boz Scaggs. They put on a killer show. We are in our mid-fifties, and upon entering noticed that this was...
Posted: 8/26/2012 7:22 PM
Ready, Set, Go!
I know the Olympics are over and we heard variations of those words for two weeks. What a great display of talent, determination, discipline, commitment and hard work. Wow, I could be talking about the athletes who displayed their work to the world in...
Posted: 8/15/2012 10:01 PM
Let the Games Begin!
No, not the hunger games, which I will admit I relished both the book and the movie. I mean the World Choir Games which begin here in Cincinnati on July 4. This has been all over the news in Cincinnati for at least the last year, but it surprises me when...
Posted: 6/30/2012 7:52 PM
Milestones in Music
At some point, those of us who have made the arts their life work, come to the realization that our arts experiences form the major milestones in our life. We shape our timeline not on chronological years, or life events, but on what we were doing in...
Posted: 6/17/2012 4:19 PM
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I am a lifelong arts advocate and my life revolves around the arts. I oversee a large community school of the arts, housed in one of the top conservatories in the country. I am surrounded by the finest young artists struggling to be the best they can. I also am a professional oboist who is thankful every day that she has the luxury of making music for the pure joy and not to make a living. Amy is most passionate about ensuring that all people have access to to the arts and opportunities to experience the arts in a substantial, satisfying manner.
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I am a lifelong arts advocate and my life revolves around the arts. I oversee a large community school of the arts, housed in one of the top conservatories in the country. I am surrounded by the finest young artists struggling to be the best they can. I also am a professional oboist who is thankful every day that she has the luxury of making music for the pure joy and not to make a living. Amy is most passionate about ensuring that all people have access to to the arts and opportunities to experience the arts in a substantial, satisfying manner.
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