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“Tourist Music”– cliches the world over
Well I have a terrible confession to make: while everyone else in Boston is freezing to death this week, I escaped to the Bahamas. Here I sit in a house in Nassau in shorts, enjoying balmy weather and taking long … Continue reading
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Web sites: fancy versus fluid
So I just came back from having a lunch meeting with a meeting/event planner. For professional speakers, meeting/event planners are the source of all things good and wonderful, i.e. gigs. We had a fabulous time. But one thing she said … Continue reading
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A unique approach to applying to college
Many years ago I knew this guy, who, at the time, was a fairly average high school student. He had a basic “B” average at a very basic public high school. He was not the president of any school clubs, … Continue reading
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A Salute to Rotary Clubs
Four years ago, I found myself at one of those major crossroads of life (not my favorite location), and after much cogitation, I decided it was time to seriously strike out on a path of doing what I’ve always wanted … Continue reading
Managing fear with good breathing habits
Today’s post is yet another little tip about being creative, and about effective performance and presentation, and just good health in general. For many people, performing is a very stressful and frightening experience. To be perfectly honest, when I give … Continue reading
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A Radical Approach to Education Reform
I was recently re-reading one of the first success books ever written, "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill. Like many success books old and new, the book places tremendous emphasis on the importance of desire as the starting point … Continue reading
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Techniques of Being Creative
Last May I had the extraordinary pleasure of being invited down to Nassau to see the National Orchestra of the Bahamas perform my Peter VS the Wolf. What fun. I had a free day the first day, so I indulged … Continue reading
Teaching Creativity
So every once in a while I watch videos on TED TV http://www.ted.com And I happened upon this talk, on “do schools kill creativity”: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html This guy Ken Robinson talked about how schools tend to suppress creativity, and how schools … Continue reading
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A new approach to arts education
Last summer, I was invited to speak at the annual meeting of the Florida Orchestra Association. After an hour of regaling them with outrageous tales from my musical memoir, "Real Men Don’t Rehearse," they asked me to give my vision of … Continue reading
Bad guys aren’t always all bad
I think it was a Niccolo Machiavelli who first said, “no man is entirely good or entirely evil.” And if I have not said this to you before, Machiavelli’s Discourses is one of the best management books ever written. Anyway, … Continue reading
