A couple of weeks ago I went to my son Henry’s class for “circle time.” Henry’s the one standing next to me in the wide blue stripes. I can’t say that there was absolutely no pressure, because the visitor the previous week had been Astronaut Gavin, an Actual Astronaut in the NASA training[...]
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Thomasa Eckert is a well-known singer and teacher in Seattle, and someone with whom I studied for many years. Considered a champion of 20th- and 21st – century art music, she has premiered many new works and performed contemporary music in concert and on the radio in the USA, Canada[...]
A number of people have asked me about the origin of the title, “Leaning Toward the Fiddler. ” Some years ago, a poet and close friend of mine from college, Lisa Sitkin, relayed the story she’d heard from a friend of hers told to her by her Grandma Pearl, who[...]
Come join us for a concert and party to mark the release of “Leaning Toward the Fiddler” on Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm at the Royal Room in Seattle! Come early for happy hour drinks (4-7 pm), enjoy dinner and some music, and stay after to celebrate. There’ll be[...]
A few weeks ago I had a voice lesson with a beloved teacher with whom I haven’t taken a lesson for about ten years. It was a little bit like hanging out with one’s parents after ostensibly becoming a “grown up;” everything is familiar but a little different somehow, and[...]