Category:Music
The Word Beauty Within the Broken Instrument of the Body
Brian Turner
After caring for my wife during her fight with cancer, and after caring for a family member with dementia, I cannot begin to fathom how caregivers continue their necessary work while living in Ukraine, as the full force of the Russian military brings ruin and pain and destruction to all in its path?
Our Bodies the Instruments of Love
Brian Turner
My best friend died of cancer in 2012 at the age of forty-five.
We were born four days apart and shared the same first name—though we didn’t meet until his family moved from Minnesota to California and into the same cul-de-sac when we were seven years old. We were raised like brothers from then on out ...
Kinds of Blues: 3 Songs & 3 Poems
Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady has published more than half a dozen volumes of poetry, among them Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985), winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Gathering of My Name (1991), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Brutal Imagination (2001), a National Book Award finalist.
The Superpower of Conducting: Women Rise to the Podium
Anna Rakitina, Assistant Conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Being а female conductor in today’s music world does not feel too uncommon, though, for sure, it was not always like this. The rise of women in the profession is a relatively recent development and, as with many other leadership…
Ghost Session
Pete Mullineaux
In the elbow of the snug, our absent selves make ready –
open cases, ease bellows, tune strings – spread the rosin;
some chit-chat about weather, the match, a bit of world
news thrown in. Flute enters, shrugging off the raingear,
bicycle clips; Banjo tries to order drinks, plink-plink of
a coin on an empty glass. A few are already warming up
fingers, loosening wrists, softening lips; taking off into a
gentile O’Carolan set, maybe a jig or two, before letting
rip with a few high tempo reels...
Peter Pan is Rock & Roll: Are Aging Musicians Still Relevant?
Paul Robert Mullen
We, by nature, have definite expectations of those a certain age. Cynical, I guess, but realistic.
I was only walking down the main drag of my home town this morning – a quaint seaside town in north-west England – surveying…
Letter for Berklee
Steve Vai
Greetings enthusiastic music students, and congratulations. You have chosen the entertainment industry as your profession. I have been in it for the last forty-seven years, and I can tell you it’s truly a fantastic industry. The number of options and…
Where Is Jazz Going?: Reissues, Jazz Industry, and the Future of Jazz
Jiwon Kwon
Many jazz fans would agree that John Coltrane is one of the most experimental and pioneering players in jazz history. At the height of bebop’s popularity, he made his jazz debut by joining Dizzy Gillespie’s band. Not long after, though,…
Sustaining Notes: From Grammy Award Winner Brazilian Singer Luciana Souza To Berklee Students
Luciana Souza
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Being at home has had me thinking. Thinking about how everything was interrupted. Almost violently, in some cases. If you were a student living in the dorms, you had to very quickly pack your things and…