Anything we do creatively can be considered a practice. So you might have a writing practice, or a painting practice, or your practice is dance, etc. I’ve had a few practices: writing, singing, acting, dance. While all of them are meaningful to me, at this age and life-stage I still have some affinity for both […]
Hello World 2.0
I haven’t written here for over two years. In blogging years that’s probably the equivalent of 20 years. It’s life man. It gets in the way sometimes. Where have I been? I have been busy during that intervening time – teaching, working as Associate Executive Director of Equity (the union for live performers in Canada) […]
Adagio, ma non troppo, con affetto
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 […]
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 […]