Put on Your Dancing Shoes
Just have to rave more about Sam Robson. Here’s his latest. It’s a stunner. Very symphonic. He brilliantly combines dozens of tracks to create a superlative performance of a movie […]
Category Archives: Music
A Season of Loss
It’s been a season of loss for me in December and January. My mother-in-law, my brother’s father-in-law, and a good golf buddy of mine all passed away in the past […]
The Key to a Successful Neo Renaissance Life
Renaissance people, or Polymaths, or whatever you call us, are skilled and/or knowledgeable in many areas. We believe in lifelong learning, and are driven to excel in more than one […]
An end of the month Zen moment
One of the great singers and arrangers of his generation. Awesome originality no matter what genre of music. So it’s mostly hymns. No biggie. This one is his latest. Take […]
Musing on Formal Education
My wife and I attended her niece’s graduation from Grinnell College the other day. She’s a bright, charming, intelligent young woman who’s already been to China to teach English […]
Take Two: Sometimes the Only Thing That Can Relax You is Music
Okay everyone, break time. It’s been a tough day, tough week, tough month maybe. (Tell me about it! I’ve been trying to get this post out for a day-and-a-half. Hoping […]
The Day the Music Actually Died
Singer-songwriter Don McLean is credited in popular culture for coining the phrase “The day the music died” in his best-known song, “American Pie.” That “day” was the day a […]
Music, Jazz, and Improvisation
Music satisfies three cornerstones of a Neo Renaissance (Neo Ren) life: Emotional, Intellectual, and Spiritual. Performing music can often satisfy the fourth cornerstone, Physical. Ever see a fat rock-and-roll drummer? […]
If This Doesn’t Move You, You Must be Dead
A short and sweet post about one of the Neo Renaissance cornerstones, Emotional. In four-and-a-half minutes, you may experience just about all the positive emotions you can think of. Enjoy. […]
A Moment of Zen
Under enough peer pressure, sooner or later we all conform. 🙂 The second clip is particularly mesmerizing. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/05/17/184815141/the-little-metronome-that-wouldnt?ft=3&f=111787346&sc=nl&cc=es-20130526
