Monthly Archives: December 2009

Even at the height of finals week (now blissfully in the past tense) I have continued exploring the spectrum of musicianship from the very-narrow-and-specialized to the very-broad-and-generalized. Musicians typically fall somewhere along that graduated scale, with few dwelling at the … Continue reading →

Recently I’ve been giving some attention to the notion of a gradated scale amongst musicians from utilitarianism (i.e., restricting yourself only to what you need for the objective at hand) to mysticism (i.e., allowing no restrictions, even those imposed by … Continue reading →

This particular posting is only the first tentative scratching at a deeply buried issue. It comes from some recent experiences discussing curricular issues with other faculty, and also comparing some of my instinctive responses to questions about a musician’s life … Continue reading →