Age, Death (Rewind 1/29/1993)
Modern-day Commentary This is from a collection of poems entitled Timelines, which I submitted in the spring of my sophomore year. As I flipped through the mostly fluffy poems, this…
Modern-day Commentary This is from a collection of poems entitled Timelines, which I submitted in the spring of my sophomore year. As I flipped through the mostly fluffy poems, this…
I’m putting in time this weekend. My wife is a delegate to the 215th Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, and I tagged along.…
Modern-day commentary It would’ve been a tragedy if this essay had been lost, one of my favorites ever. It was written in 7th grade and outlines my wonderment at the…
I’ve often said that I like to think about life as a series of forks, a sort-of Choose Your Own Adventure book, in which we’ve already made countless decisions, and…
I sometimes think about the fact that we each have a vast library of memories that set us staring into space for a moment whenever we confront them.
Yesterday marked the end of my fifth year as choir director at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, Massachusetts. This means that in less than six years, I have made…
This week, I’ve chosen Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, a piece with which I know I have some previous familiarity, but which I chose for two particular reasons. The first is…
It’s my wife’s birthday, and I’m the one who’s overly excited. This happens every year. It’s not that she’s afraid of birthdays, or anything like that. In fact, I’d say,…
This week, I’ll focus on Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye Suite, which is an entirely new piece to me. It was written for four-hand piano, and later orchestrated by Ravel himself…
This week I’ll be experiencing a piece I’ve never even heard of until this morning. There seems to be a lack of information about the piece online, and I have not…