inspirations

People, events, and ideas that have inspired me.

Friday, June 30, 2006

False Cognates

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During the summer of 1992, I spent four months in Northwestern Ghana studying the Lobi xylophone with Ngmen Baaru and Richard Na-Ile. The s...
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Saturday, May 27, 2006

Revisionist History

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Rimsky-Korsakov insisted that the act of creation could not be taught. Bartók felt the same way, so fervently that - even when desperate for...
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

Thracian Echoes: a shadow of the music

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In August 2001, I traveled to Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to study the Thracian folk style with clarinetist Nikola Iliev. Thracia is a region in Bulg...
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