Cultural Diversity and the Arts in America

I've just re-read Robert Garfias public policy piece, Cultural Diversity and the Arts in America (1989), and still find it a fascinating and prescient read.  I had first come across Garfias' work through another paper he had written (1981), but the former resonated very much with what I've been researching and blogging about lately. And …

Classical Music Across Cultures

I just got a twitter subscription from Classical Music Across Cultures.  I'm interested in seeing what this is about.  The website will go live in a few hours so we'll get to see more of what this is all about though judging from their facebook page is more of an outreach program for Classical Music …

Too many (classical) musicians?

Eric wrote a probing and insightful post questioning the often mentioned mantra (by the Classical Music doomsayers camp) that there are just far too many musicians being pumped out by the University system (at least in the states) to be sustained by the shrinking classical music job market.  I know that in the past I've …

Final Count: 8,263

That was the official number of paying patrons that attended the Sci-Fi Day Celebration at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis that I performed at this past Saturday.  Granted, the performance was just a small part of the total event and there were many activities for the patrons to participate in--the Frog Prince play; all the …

Quick news bite and thoughts about binaries

Just got back home from the show--the Indianapolis gigs are a good two hours drive (give or take 30 minutes for stops for coffee).  So many interesting things to share/talk about but don't have the time as I head to Bloomington, Indiana (home to the renowned Jacobs School of Music) to play another show with …