“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not
Tag: rachmaninov
You Are Worth More – Part II
It’s such good-time rock ‘n roll to be a giant bastard corporation here in the richest country in the world. You get to have a
Disconnected from Ourselves
When you’re really good at something, you keep doing it and doing it and doing it, over and over again until profound mastery is attained,
I Shook The Hand That Never Shook Rachmaninov’s Hand
When I was 18 years old, 44 years ago, working as a cook in a local hospital, a white mustached, gruff-looking man, who was also
Keeping it Real
As one of the current sales pitches here in the land of the mostly apathetic makes its’ rounds on TV, or, if you just happen
Ignorance and Arrogance May Soon Wipe Us All Out
Just because your friends are out binge-drinking at 2:00 a.m. and beyond, doesn’t mean that the world stops spinning its insanity while they spent the
Dispatches from the Asylum 