As my live performance opportunities became more limited, I relied increasingly on recordings to push myself to the highest possible...

At this point I wrote about a half dozen more songs and then switched over to instrumentals. I joined the Maine Composer's Forum where I...

I was officially off the road now, secure in the knowledge that you ignore rock and roll at your own peril. During my six years with the...

As anyone who's been reading this can see, I'm all over the musical map from 12 tone fugues to jazz and funk to musicals to top 40 rock...

Once upon a time, there was a world where it was possible to have fun without fear, guilt or recrimination. It was a world where live...

My classified ad connected me with a bass player and a guitar player. The three of us were rehearsing some jazz standards, funk and...

And so the adventure continued.... I had been studying, composing, playing and working in and out of the music business in New York for...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

I took the intermediate piano class and started to work on improving my reading. I also started taking the other core music classes with...

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...

….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...

In the Spring semester, I finally found myself starting classes on the campus of one of the more affordable state universities without a...

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...