by admin | Mar 24, 2015 | Blog
n Nickelodeon Animation Studios I’m no stranger to test-performance anxiety. I have two degrees in music and in my student days I dealt with taking auditions and playing performances. I clearly remember my first time playing a solo in Keller Hall, the recital hall at...
by admin | Mar 11, 2015 | Blog
n I’ve blogged extensively about tasting over the last three years but never about the basics of the Master Sommelier deductive tasting grid or how to use it—until now. Here’s a play-by-play description of how to use the grid. If you don’t already have a copy of the...
by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog
n October 29, 2014; game seven of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals. In the bottom of the fifth inning Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner enters the game with the score tied 2-2. In the remaining five innings of the game the...
by admin | Feb 16, 2015 | Blog
n “The map is not the territory.” Alford KorzybskiBehavioral scientists tell us that we are bombarded by over a billion bits of sensory information every second. To cope with...
by admin | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog
n Warner Brothers A happy belated New Year to everyone. After taking most of January off, it’s back to it and this post is geared primarily for students in the MS program—particularly those who will be taking the Master’s theory exam at the beginning of March. Know...
by admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog
n Christmas dinner, 1981. At the time I was a grad student at the University of Michigan studying classical trumpet. That first year Carla and I elected not to go home to New Mexico for the holidays but chose instead to stay in frigidly cold and snowy Ann Arbor. We...
