One of the major frustrations of my professional musical life has been the continual reminder of how few talented young string players, even those with exceptional instrumental skill, seem to truly understand the importance of reflecting their very own personal emotional experiences within the fabric of their musical interpretations and performances.
da capo from the beginningIs a chronology of life lessons learned from the students that have crossed her path and how those experiences changed her perspective both in and out of the classroom.
This collection of thoughts, feelings, surmises, rants and rhapsodies explores the world of art and cinema Nilsson has watched and experienced over the last 40 years.
At the 2007 American Choral Directors Association Southwestern Convention, I presented an Interest Session lecture titled John Finley Williamsons influence on Americas choral singing.
With its inspirational foreword, this book is a great reminder to parents that each child is very special, and that we have an obligation to cultivate the innate gifts of our children, instead of simply hoping the public school system will yield a desirable end-product in them.
Great musicians and worship leaders are in high demand in the church today, but to be effective, they must first have the necessary tools, including theological, musical, and technical training.
Carl Zuckmayers illustrious career as one of Central Europes most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933.
A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a 'learned pig' - all of these offered an evening's entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada.
A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a 'learned pig' - all of these offered an evening's entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada.
The Ojai Playwrights Conference is one of the most celebrated wellsprings in the world for the development of raw material by some of our greatest living playwrights.
The objections faced by the pharmaceutical sales professionals are different from the objections faced by the sales professionals of automobile, FMCG or electronic goods.
Although stretching back into the unwritten and often mythic past, traditional Malay performing arts have, until recent times, been almost totally neglected.
Sukumara Natana Thathwa, began with random thoughts, observations, reactions, being noted down for me alone, and then, very soon, it took on an existence of its own, dragging me along with it, tightly chained, so that I was pulled back to the subject in spite of the numerous deviations, where I was forced to play various roles, that of a wife, a mother, a teacher, even a performer!
The fundamental subject of Not Most People: The Pornographists Tale is death as a philosophical problem of which all thinking men and women are conscious.
Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion (and other uncommon tales from the founder of the Big Apple Circus) is a celebration of Paul Binders life in and around the circus.
Masada Revisited III gives a different view of what happened at Masada in 73 ce when the Jewish defenders, according to the only historical account, given by the historian Josephus in his book The Jewish War, essentially committed mass suicide.
Writings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as "e;Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse"e; (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics.
For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors.
I am a Standupster, A Second Generation Survivors Account, by the Daughter of David Zauder, is the first-ever biography of Internationally Acclaimed Holocaust and Anti-bullying Educator and Speaker, Karen Zauder Brass.
Jamantha Williams Watson takes us inside the lives of several individuals struggling to find their places in a world where fairness, morality and civility do not always apply.