25 Experts, 1 Teacher

Like many (most?) white people, I haven’t spent much of my life thinking about being white. I grew up in a small, almost entirely white town in New England a...

Jim Crow came from Africa. He was a mythical creature, a shape-shifting trickster in the form of a bird, who lived in the stories and songs brought to Americ...

The entertainment of a minstrel show really began hours before the curtain went up, as the troupe paraded from the train station to their performance venue, w...

This is the first of three posts providing some background about my current show, "The Scottsboro Boys," which runs June 28-Aug 4 at Playhouse on Park. "The ...

In 2004, I was a first-year music teacher in a magnet middle school in East Hartford. Any public school educator will tell you that the first year of teachin...

I’ve recently been reflecting on how so much of my work as a teacher and an artist is focused toward the simple goal of being more human. My work with younge...

WHAT IS IT? I don’t think anybody knows what music directing is. I often hear/read music director colleagues lamenting that we seem to be easily forgotten: l...

This past Wednesday night I made my debut on the stage of Mortenson Hall, the largest of the spaces at the Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford, CT. I...

I was recently included in a Hartford Magazine feature on the thriving arts scene in Hartford. It was fun to arrive at the group photo shoot and see my frien...

This past Sunday I completed my 10th half marathon. I expected it to be an unpleasant slogfest due to the fact that my training runs had been inconsistent an...

More and more, we rely on technology to make our art. Sometimes I marvel at the sheer number of bells and whistles that go into putting on a top-notch musica...

7/30-18 I was so pleased to have finally gotten the call to music direct a show at my neighborhood theater, where I have worked as a sub and occasional accom...

7/30/18 Every year, I look forward the first day of YPCCA (Young People's Center for Creative Arts), where I get to make art with some of my favorite people....