If you want your performances to sound new every time try including at least one segment of sound unlike any you have ever made before, whether a piece composed yesterday or an instrumental or vocal effect you don’t usually permit yourself. Everything will sound fresh, not just to you but to your listeners as well – even the most familiar will be transformed. Morton Feldman’s 1951 Pieces from Nature had that effect on Chopin and Haydn — and on my audience and myself!
I remember as a kid being intrigued by the song "Oh, my darlin' Clementine." Sure sounds like a sad story. Can't be! But it is fun to sing it exaggerating its tragic surface. There is a young boy wh
Every time I cross 109th St. on my way up or downtown I cast a glance at the apartment building on the corner of 109 and Riverside Drive, the former residence of Hannah Arendt. Her essays in The New Y
Funny, how we take for granted that someone is listening when we talk to them. Do you recall ever talking to someone who wasn't paying the slightest attention to you and/or to what you were saying? T