Collaboration: Composer, Performer, Symphony & Students
Don’t miss the Masterworks Concert “Jazz Voices” on Nov. 18 & the FREE Family Concert “Moods in Music” on Nov. 17th! See details below! The Details: WHAT: Masterworks Concert: “Jazz Voices”WHO: West Shore Symphony... read more
Everybody has a Voice
From the April 7, 2018 weekly Ezine Do you wonder sometimes, like I do, about where your own creative voice fits? And sometimes whether it does at all? If so, I want to tell you that your voice – no matter what it sounds like – is part of the rich ensemble... read more
Thank You Tacoma!
Last week I got back from Tacoma, WA where I had the joy of playing with the passionate (and sometimes unexpectedly comedic) musicians in Symphony Tacoma and their great new conductor conductor Sarah Ioannides – and to introduce the “Tacoma... read more
What Does it Take to Get on Stage?
I’m playing with Symphony Tacoma this Sun. Apr. 22 in a special Earth Day concert in Seattle-Tacoma and I just landed in the beautiful Northwest. But yesterday … Yesterday it took only one minute for my Uber driver to get to my house — barely enough... read more
Meet the HARP-Breakers with Symphony TACOMA!
Meet the Nine HARPISTS who will join me onstage with SYMPHONY TACOMA Sun., Apr. 22, 2018 ~ 2:30 pm Stella DeSantis • Clara Fredrickson Grace Gallo • Jessica Gallo Meg Mann • Naomi Maxwell • Martina Preston Cassie Reinbolt Turner • Abigail Wooster In “Earth... read more
How do you get to Carnegie Hall – with a checklist?
OK, it’s not exactly Carnegie Hall – it’s the Pantages Theater in Tacoma, WA – and I’ll be there April 22 — but it’s the only joke I ever heard my grandmother tell, and I’m pretty sure she meant it as a lesson and not a joke: A tourist, lost in New... read more
Are you DONE?? or … How to get done without a deadline.
Are you DONE? What does DONE even mean??? After decades of creating and performing my own music, my definition of ‘done’ means ‘in sharable form.’ My whole life I’ve been a composing-perfomer and ’til now, “Done” meant... read more
Can you DISTILL experience to its ESSENCE?
Do you ever wish you could DISTILL a huge amount of knowledge and simplify it down to just what’s essential? Do you wish you could reduce everything in your house, your backpack, your closets, your drawers, your bathroom, your kitchen — maybe even your body,... read more
Love Gone Bad (Lyrics)
What’s the best thing about a bad breakup? If your heart’s ever been broken. If you ever knew it was the beginning of the end. If you ever got dumped, or knew you had to dump your lover, then you know what “Love Gone Bad” is all about. So call in the... read more
