Two really great videos with awesome, insightful content.  And just to keep your attention, they have been animated!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&

I’ve just enjoyed a wonderful week of singing in Austin with Conspirare.  It was a wonderful evening of mostly German music, including the monolith Deutsche Motette by Richard Strauss.  You can see a couple of the reviews here.
There are so many things I love about singing with Conspirare, and one of the my favorites is [...]

I wanted to share this incredible poem. My dear friend Jacque Darragh gave me this poem as part of our Artist’s Way class.  I just adore what it says.  You can take “Love” to mean so many different things: the love we receive from others or from God, or the act of giving love [...]

I am honored to be singing in performances with the Hope Stone, Inc. this weekend (October 23 and 24, 8pm, Cullen Theater at the Wortham Center).  Hope Stone is a totally unique and vibrant dance company.  This show promises to be beautiful and exciting.  The company is also giving back a great deal to the [...]

Wired Glass: Santa Fe-based artist with really cool, funky mixed-media sculptures.  Website isn’t well developed but he does awesome work.
CORE Performance Company: A crazy dance group that wore crazy costumes and wandered around the festival stirring up trouble.  It was totally unique modern dance that I couldn’t stop watching.
Emerson Images: Photographer who has incredible pictures [...]

I think most people, when they experience a work of art, are not only interested in WHAT it is, but also HOW it was created.  Most everyone wants to pull back the curtain and see the wizard who makes it all happen.  As in so many things, children can be such an example of how [...]

1. Today was the performance of Peter Rabbit, The Opera by students at Frost Elementary School.  Hannah and I were so proud of our students.  They learned a lot about opera and how to write music and perform it.
2. Working on music and getting ready for a performance with the Houston Bach Society on Sunday [...]

I have been having a really awesome time the past several weeks working with “Create An Opera” Camp at Frost Elementary School.  This is a special project of the Houston Grand Opera, and I am collaborating with Hannah Lu (also a colleague from “Opera to Go!”) to teach this class.
During our sessions with the children, [...]

I recently encountered this Rumi poem at a concert I attended.
There Is A Field
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.  I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
- Rumi
…wow…

This video has me thinking about a lot of things lately.  The innovation of the world is astounding to me!