Tuesday, May 25, 2010

It has been a jam packed Spring filled with music, music, music!

The Anything Goes Chorus performed the 29th Annual Spring Concert combining SF and Oakland choruses at the First Congregational Church in Oakland.

I returned for the second year to Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland with my quartet and sang my heart out for an enthusiastic audience that filled the house once again.

Girlfriendz had two concerts in one weekend in San Leandro Library Theater and the nonet delighted the crowd both nights with their vocals and choreography.

Treble Makers had a triumphant concert at Avonova in Oakland singing for family and friends and the quartet put on a full evening of entertainment.

Coming up next month will be a production of West Side Story by the Stagebridge seniors at the Ashby theater in Berkeley, and later in June a recital by my jazz vocal students at the Jazzschool.

Whew!

Then I will take a well deserved vacation this summer and spend some time in my beloved Eastern Sierra mountains. This will be followed by a trip back east to Cape Cod to visit old college friends, hang out at the Atlantic Ocean, soak up some sun and rest up for the fall and more music, music, music!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

View from 2010

Communicating in mere words is incredibly difficult and often just plain inadequate. A quote from Paula Underwood Spencer, an American Indian writer, offers a possible method for dealing with the challenge: "If you want to be truly understood, you need to say everything three times, in three different ways. Once for each ear and once for the heart. The right ear represents the ability to apprehend the nature of the Whole, the wholeness of the circumstance, the forest. The left ear represents the ability to select a sequential path. And the heart represents a balance between the two."

This is why I'm a musician. I aim for both ears and the heart---all at once.