I have written a great deal on this blog about Steven Staryk, but I haven't written much about his musical alter ego, Primus Stefan, a...

Violinists and lovers of violin music will be happy to know that I just put two editions of Amanda Maier's Six Pieces for Violin and Pia...

Luanne Koper read Shelley's "Mutability" at the memorial service for our friend Rob Zseleczky. She read it because Shelley was...

My friend Dan Barrett introduced me to this extraordinary recording of Bach's Partita No. 1, and I'm sharing it with you. The pauses...

I'm playing a concert in two weeks. You will, no doubt, notice that between the pictures of two composers of works on the program (i.e.,...

It is pure medicine, during these trying times, to listen to these marvelous musicians play and sing this wonderful duet. I am amazed at the...

Here's a moment of family music. Rachel and Ben have flown back to their grown-up nests, but right before they left (literally) we made...

Everything in my musical life has had its ebb and flow. My most exciting period of "flow" happened in my very early 30s, after I ...

I have a great chair that I use for practicing, but it is upholstered with faux leather (i.e. plastic), and it can get uncomfortably hot and...

I actually don't have to, because it seems that the bulk e-mail message I got yesterday from a well-known and well-respected conductor (...