Note: This is a Letter To The Editor that I will be sending to the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin. February 12, 2010 Dear Editor: When will the movers and shakers of our community realize that the closing of the Honolulu Symphony means further, and endless, ‘brain drain’? Our state already loses out when its …
Recently I have been on somewhat of a brandy kick, perhaps because of all the Alfred Hitchcock movies we’ve been watching in Ran Blake‘s Film Noir class at NEC. (Hitchcock often has his characters drink brandy in his films… see The Rope, Strangers on a Train, and others). The Sidecar and the Daisy I first …
This month I’m doing some volunteer music education work for the Boston Children’s Museum. I’ve always wanted the experience of working in a museum setting (something musicians don’t usually get; museum education is usually squarely in the zone of visual artists), as well as teaching in informal contexts. Plus, the BCM is full of opportunity …