This will be a free writing blog for me.   What comes to mind is what will be saved here.   Sort of like Andre Breton and automatic writing.  The only difference is that I'm likely to stay on one topic.

I hear and feel music all the time.   If it is not going through my head it is somewhere in my body...foot tapping, finger movement, teeth clicking, baton waiting.   It's stuck in me.  I've learned to live with that.

What I haven't learned to live with is my increasing hypersensitivity to sound....
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This is a long one folks - it's a review of a review - that's right - Mr. David Denby of the "New Yorker" tore apart the movie "Les Miserables" and now I will take this opportunity to tear apart Mr. Denby's review, which, by the way, is actually quite a good read!  I apologize for typos - I was just so excited to write this I did it in one quick sitting.  Enjoy!!!

Ah David Denby – nicely done!  You have picked apart the movie Les Miserable, actor by actor, song by song and scene by scene i...

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This spring will be a busy one.  I have 8 performance to conduct in a 6 month span.   There will be between 42 and 46 pieces of music performed during that time.    Aging as a conductor is not always a bad thing because this usually means that one has previously conducted at least some of the repertoire that is coming up.   I'm lucky to have 3 fabulous graduate conducting students to take some of the load off me.  

I often consider what life would be like to not have this constant pressure of...
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For those of you that know me, you know that I love sports.   I am enraptured in music
all day almost every day and when I get the chance I escape to my play world of
college and pro-sports.   I really can't get enough.  And so instead of boring you with
a music blog, I will usually rap about current news in sports but not without interjecting
some musical anecdotes or ramblings about current events here and there.

Well ok....I do go off on a tangent about music sometimes and so I'll do that...
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