Essays on music: the stories it tells, and what it leaves us to live by.


“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.” – Robert Frost
I guess I’m just not the kind of person who likes to dwell much on past events. Once something has passed, then it’s no longer on my radar. Frankly, it’s not because I could simply forget them. It’s not like that. I could conjure up the sights and the smells, the sounds, how people talked,…