This is the second post inspired by Beethoven piano sonatas. I have already discussed my pleasure with Allegretto, ma non troppo, now we turn to another goodie: Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto. Adagio means slowly and suggests and emotional reading – though again we have that limitation of ‘not too much’ attached to it. […]
Allegretto, ma non troppo
This blog post title is inspired by a Beethoven piano concert I recently attended. The pianist presented several of the Beethoven piano concertos, all multi-movement works, with descriptive titles such as the one above. If your knowledge of musical nomenclature and/or Italian is rusty, it means ‘quickly, but not too much’. Allegro/allegretto also has a […]
Post-Colonial Voices
At the moment I feel like a lot of my time as a teacher is railing against young voices that have been colonized by western elitist forms of vocalism. They have been taught rigid boundaries of what is acceptable vocalism which leaves students stuck in a narrow band of polite and cultivated sounds. They lose […]
Ready to do business #LikeACanadian?
So there is a campaign making the rounds to promote business values that are supposedly ‘Canadian’. Their pledge is: “We aim to unite Canadians around a values-driven, sustainable and inclusive economic development strategy as a competitive advantage and simply the modern way to do business.” https://www.dobusinesslikeacanadian.ca On one hand, this does come across as a […]
Moving At ‘The Speed Of Thinking’
People ask me when I am going to be finished my phd. How long is a piece of string, is usually my response. I’m not being glib, I just don’t know. I know it’s taking longer than I thought. I know it’s taking longer than I’d like. I know it’s taking longer than I hoped. […]
Are we being upfront about the risk?
Today I paid a visit to the bank to sit with an advisor. My current work as a part-time Professor at a college does not have a pension scheme and I wanted to open up an investment vehicle in which I could stash a few dollars each month towards buying myself diapers and gin […]
Can We Ever Really Come Home?
I’ve been asking myself that question for much of the past year. If you don’t know my story, I grew up in Canada. In 2002, I moved to the UK. In 2018, I moved back to Canada. I was gone for 16 years. In that time, I built a new ‘home’. I became a citizen […]
Why Forecasting the Future is a Fool’s Game
I’ve been cleaning up some papers lately (inspired by my binge watching of Marie Kondo on Netflix) and I came across a pile of newspaper clippings that I thought were worth keeping. The first one I read was from the London Evening Standard on Friday 19 September 2008 written just after the great banking […]
It’s Time To Dissect Working for Free
Recent research published by IPSE, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed found that 43% of their workers had worked for free. This rose to 86% of those in the creative industries. Now it doesn’t specify the timeline, i.e. is that 86% who have EVER worked for free or 86% who have recently […]
Being an Introvert in Business
I’m teaching an entrepreneurship class right now to University students on a performing arts degree course. There’s 19 of them in the class and they’re all in their early to mid-20’s. They’re bright, conscientious, and sparky. Some are goofy and loud and extroverted. Their personalities shine through, they love to talk up in class and […]
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