Fickle Ears

If there is such a thing academically/intellectually as a "young (wo)man's game," the question for those of us so enmeshed bec...

Even as an avowedly extreme case of the self-reflective introvert with a generous heap of "uncompromising" artist sprinkled in to ...

Young man of Athens, your vanity peeps from the holes in your robe! -Socrates to Antisthenes Earlier this month, I had two Friday eveni...

Editorial Note: I lied , and it was only good for half an exorcism. Therefore, the "frozen essay" is hereby defrosted, prepared, ...

I Early last spring, spurred on by a band director's curious statement as reported to me by a mutual student, I sat down to write my n...

If music is truly The Social Art, then the enduring contribution of determinate composition is as a means of managing untenable social situa...

From the department of reinventing the wheel, here are newly cleaned up versions of some charts I like to use with young brass students. Lin...

I just saw a Craigslist post for a $9/hour security job that lists "critical thinking" as one of the required skills. Evidently it...

That's it for the month. Til next time.

The outer layer of the masculinity crisis, men's loss of economic authority, was most evident in the recessionary winds of the early nin...

It's time to start thinking endgame here, and there are indeed a couple of loose ends to be tied up concerning the gender discussion I o...