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The Beatles Archive
The Beatles & active listening; an early lesson from “You Won’t See Me”
The Beatles’s song, “You Won’t See Me,” teaches what is meant by active listening.
“Why Do You Compose?” a response to Rob Deemer
Rob Deemer, a composer and conductor, recently posed this question on New Music Box, “Why do you compose?” That’s a pointed way of asking some questions I’ve considered for a […]
What Is “Children’s Music”?
In the 9/6/07 issue of Rolling Stone magazine, with Maroon 5 on the cover, lead singer Adam Levine’s mother makes a provocative statement: “I wouldn’t let him listen to kid’s […]
Write something joyful!
The other night I was at a composer’s forum where the guest of honor was 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec. We were all having a great exchange, and the […]
Podcast the Nineteenth
Podcast the Nineteenth is available on iTunes or whatever your RSS aggregator might be. The two books I refer to in the podcast, highly recommended, are: The Beatles by Bob […]
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