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...

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...

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...