Discover The Firebird
Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite has been with me a long time. Back in the 1960’s, one of Philadelphia’s grocery store chains, the Penn Fruit Company, began offering classical 33 1/3…
The Maestro’s Blog
A Post for A Challenging Moment
You do not need me to tell you that we’ve entered a moment unlike any most of us have ever encountered in our lives. Like many of you, I stand…
Life with Dave, Bill, Bob, Walter & Mike
One of the great joys of the past decade has been our association with the Midnight Media Group in Millburn, New Jersey, a full-service video and audio production company. Their…
Visiting the NBCS
In 2014, I wrote a blog post The Choir Boys about my visits to the Newark Boys Chorus School, a remarkable 51-year-old institution that absolutely transforms the lives of its…
What Happened!
People have been asking, and believe me, no one was more surprised than the members of The Discovery Orchestra when, after last seeing me in the spring, I walked into…
Annual Thanks – Encore 2019
In re-reading Thanksgiving blog posts from the past I sometimes think: “Mm, this would be good to repeat.” The one I wrote in 2014 struck me, and so I offer…
Thank you for putting this out.[Discovery Orchestra Video Chat 57] I had homework about this and this video helped me out.