I continue to explore the vast number of compositions written for the classical guitar by the great Fernando Sor (1778 – 1839). I think it is one of Sor’s most charming pieces and it has given me great pleasure to learn and play it.  Hope you enjoy.

A recent album of some of my favorite Advent carols is now streaming on most streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music. I hope you will have a listen and while you do, hit the follow icon on my artist page so that you can be notified of new music I will be posting in […]

For all the great thoughts I have read For all the deep books I have studied None has brought me nearer to Spirit Than a walk beneath shimmering leaves Golden red with the fire of autumn When the air is crisp And the sun a pale eye, watching. I am a scholar of the senses […]

Earlier today, I listened to remarks that Secretary of State Antony Blinken made during a press conference in Israel. In those remarks he referenced a text written by his stepfather, Samuel Pisar, to be performed as part of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 more commonly known as the monumental “Kaddish Symphony.” The Kaddish Symphony is […]

  “I like it much better than ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real.” – The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor

Deb and I have been enjoying a good stretch of time on the enchanted Greek Island of Hydra on the Saronic Gulf. We are staying at “YaYa’s” House, a small villa on top of a cliff which looks over the port below. The house is a 15-minute walk from the port, with over 240 steps […]

The gifted oboist and conductor, Michael Helmrath, once asked a student the following question: “Where is the music?” “In the CD when you started playing it?” “No the CD is a photo. But it isn’t the music.” “Then is it in the score, when you write it?” “No the music only exists in the moment […]