16. What's The Rush?
My classified ad connected me with a bass player and a guitar player. The three of us were rehearsing some jazz standards, funk and...
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Robert
- May 17, 2019
- 2 min
15. The Way Life Should Be
And so the adventure continued.... I had been studying, composing, playing and working in and out of the music business in New York for...
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Robert
- May 9, 2019
- 2 min
14. NY Coda
NY has its charms. And before it got too full of itself, it had class and character. As Edna St. Vincent Millay once said, "The presence...
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Robert
- May 3, 2019
- 2 min
13. Mean Streets
So I had made a really good connection with Warner Brothers Publishing. The work was plentiful and it paid well, for a while.... After a...
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Robert
- Apr 19, 2019
- 3 min
12. "This Is A Gil Evans"
So off I went into the world of the self employed music copyist. The first job I did which was provided by my music copying teacher was...
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Robert
- Apr 5, 2019
- 2 min
11. Copy Cat
After working a year and a half or so at Portnoy's, I decided it was time to find a job closer to the music, so I found a job printing...
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Robert
- Mar 22, 2019
- 2 min
10. Ya Do What Ya Gotta Do
The title of this post may as well be the title of my working life. The next stop on my journey to pay the bills was a wholesale...
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Robert
- Mar 8, 2019
- 2 min
9. What Goes Up...
After my unproductive interview with the VP in charge of the Creative Division at Chappell Music, it was only a matter of time before my...
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Robert
- Feb 22, 2019
- 2 min
8. Land Of A Thousand Dances
In my last semester I had gotten the name of a concert pianist/piano teacher in New York from a visiting concert pianist so I could...
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Robert
- Feb 9, 2019
- 2 min
7. The Importance Of Being Earnest
And so, I began my music studies in earnest. I felt that music had chosen me by virtue of the fact that it was what kept me in school. ...
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Robert
- Jan 25, 2019
- 2 min
6. Bach, Debussy and Beyond...
I took the intermediate piano class and started to work on improving my reading. I also started taking the other core music classes with...
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Robert
- Jan 11, 2019
- 1 min
5. Once More With Feeling....
At this critical juncture I either had to get my grades up or part company with plans for a college degree. If my heart isn't into...
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Robert
- Dec 28, 2018
- 2 min
4. In The Meantime....
….which is a groovy time as Jimi Hendrix put it, I was losing faith that I would ever find a major subject which would capture my...
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Robert
- Dec 7, 2018
- 1 min
3. Clowns To The Left of Me, Jokers To The Right...
In the Spring semester, I finally found myself starting classes on the campus of one of the more affordable state universities without a...
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Robert
- Nov 23, 2018
- 1 min
2. What the.....?
Okay, so it's now seven years later. I had moved out of my home a year earlier and gone to live with a friend to avoid collateral damage...
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Robert
- Nov 9, 2018
- 1 min
1. Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away....
Piano Wars! The evolution of my career in music has been anything but typical. I find myself constantly interacting with other musicians...
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