I think that is right. It is your conversation about your life.
Read Dr. Thomas Sowell’s recent book “Intellectuals and Society”. His opinion of intellectuals, I believe, correlates with your own. Also, check out Dr. Parkin’s, American Political Commentary. He also, has similar points of view.

Why do you go and play on the street?

Interaction with music, it seems to me, is a communication process. Music is a melodic use of sound, and it is interpretative of human emotions. I was only interested in the Why? and it doesn’t really matter Why? It really only matters to you and the people that you have contact. Is one an actor without a stage? Is a person a musician without performance? Otherwise,it is a hobby.

I believe that the person is Gary Moore. Easy to miss at your age, eh! I think you are worth the market price, but what do I know. You should be a Professor of Music and teach others the way to enlightenment. I would take the class.

Enlightenment like Kung Fu enlightenment? Heh. Thanks for the correction. And kind words.

I do think people make generalities of others, based upon perceptions received from others. This, I think happens because people do not use critical thinking skills or maybe they just are not taught to understand the difference between real life and cartoons.
You exhibit the attributes that Christ was trying to say to us. After all, Christ exhibited anger and angst at the incongruities of people. Most intellectual arguments are about truth. So truth is born out by evidence, mostly. This search for truth is frustrating and laborious. Not many undertake this path.

Maybe Chopin was in a darn bad mood! Aren’t all musicians just trained mechanics. Didn’t he have that place “Chopin’s drive through music shop”? It was just around the corner from St. Peter’s instant prayer, and get saved Shop. Not sure of the location though, I may have it confused with the McDonald’s.

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I’ve become addicted to your blog again, happily. Damn, but these Dickinson lines are helpful!

I feel relieved. I worried about your meeting yesterday. I assume it went as well as expected. I spoke to Kevin D. at AGC yesterday. He just wanted to associate my face with my email.

Dickinson usually takes me some Time to absorb, but the Oxygenating of the Poltroon Idea was immediately meaningful and inspiring. I love the idea of going beyond one’s Nerve, let the Coward lean on the Grave. Yikes, she gets under the Skin.

Thanks to both of your for reading and commenting. Nice to know you’re noticing this blog….

I sometimes think that heaven may actually be here and this is merely a transition point to something else. Your pictures would make anybody think that that is true. Lovely images and pleasant discourse.

An interesting discussion about information and knowledge. Book store owners should be concerned, but not worried. The delivery of information is changing. They will need to adapt. The real problem, I think is about the amount of information and the decision as to what information is relevant or as I like to call it, “make knowledge” or the conversion of information into knowledge. I read Reingold’s article and it is essentially, my contention that the reader must be able to discern “what is important” in the information provided. I forwarded the article along to Dr. Parkins by Howard Gardner. It relates very well to his theory of “verbal laizez-faire”. The AMOUNT of information is of real concern, however. People are being swamped with information. Slugging through this to discover facts and ultimately truth is a problem. This is especially, true with politics.

I forgot to mention. I am listening to your medieval renaissance website. I am enjoying it immensely and have bookmarked it. Thanks so much.

“I have asked numerous Jazz performers and professors why should we study and recreate the Jazz of the past? I ask the question because my understanding of Jazz history is that the style was always a moving target. It is a history of experimentation and music in the moment.

So when a young musician plays a great Jazz solo note for note that was spontaneously crafted by a practitioner he or she admires haven’t they changed the music from something that is free and alive to something that is trapped in amber?

But now I can answer my own question.

Every time a musician makes or remakes music she or he makes something unrepeatable and uniquely expressive of the music itself. So whether it is an original (whatever that is) improvisation or composition or an interp or even a note for note recreation of someone’s improvisation, there is a level at which the music is continuing to breathe, live, thrive and transform in the hands of the human making it.

I like this idea quite a bit.”

I like that idea too. If I were better with words when you asked me, that is what I would have said. I hope you’re well, mon ami.

JVH

oh yes, I’ve listened to PRX before, though it sorta slid off my radar.. I think I haven’t poked around, just listened to the moth radio hour. Thanks for pointing it out again… (it does work in the UK!)

Excellent!

She plays at Tatumic speed! And I noticed, I think, that she used a technique of Fats Waller (or who was it?) — striking the piano with a fist and then resolving it into another harmony. Cool piece, cool playing.

Yes she has an interesting bag of tricks that she seems to use in much of her playing: the tone clusters, the damping of the bass notes to simulate a bass solo and others. I love her energy which comes through stronger to me in her playing than her energetic stage manner.

Speaking of piano, I recently made a brief return engagement at Our Lady of the Lake and was pleasantly surprised to find the Bluthner in good working order. What a piano!