When I was in my early twenties I found a book in the library called “I Am a Composer”. It was an English translation of Arthur Honegger’s 1954 book, written in French. This book got me interested in Honegger because of his very original ideas and concepts. I recently ordered this book and I am now reading it again and, […]
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Musician friends of mine are always surprised when I tell them I am a fan of composer Anton Webern. After all, his music is spiky and to many ears it seems discordant. Webern was a part of the Second Viennese School (along with Schoenberg and Berg). I was first introduced to this music when I studied music theory in college.
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Inspiration is something that I think is commonly misunderstood. Many people think that music is written when a flood of ideas comes to the writer like a thunderbolt. Once in a great while this sort of thing may happen but the old adage about inspiration being more about perspiration holds true. Personally I have to write four pieces of music
I was busy whispering a detailed explanation of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of the “Will” into the eager ear of a young lady in the backseat of my 56′ Ford when it happened. Believe me, it took quite a jolt to disengage my attention at that exact moment. After all, I was only 18 years old and my red corpuscles were pounding
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S.J. Perelman is one of my favorite artists. Mr. Perelman was a humorist and writer. He essentially wrote short pieces in a very distinctive style. His use of language and skill with words were and are highly regarded. Many of his pieces (or “feuiletons” as he called them) appeared in the New Yorker and later were gathered into collections to
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I’ve always wanted to create a bass/guitar duet album with straight ahead jazz on an arch top electric guitar in the vein of Jim Hall/Ron Carter/Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Duet is it.This is a very limited run of 200 discs. Click the link if you’d like to contact me to purchase one. I hope you enjoy it as
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