These kids are AMAZING. One of the highlights of my trip to Denmark.

Member of the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra are showing their support for presidential candidate Barack Obama with T-shirts that say “Baroque” Obama.

Here’s a few things that are feeding my brain/soul/inner self lately:
*”I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
*Truth
Poem by Michael S. Glaser
Truth is as mysterious as God.
and as sacred.
It sustains and kills.
It is always dangerous.
* This video on YouTube. When I [...]

I feel like I have so many reasons to love Facebook that I can’t really explain it in a succinct way.
But just a few reasons: it’s incredibly immediate and efficient, it brings people together, it gives us the opportunity to communicate in less formal ways than email or phone, and it connects people [...]

Thanks to Robbie for this blogging activity. (Robbie thanked someone else for it, who thanked someone else, etc. Who knows where this thing started!)
i am: always looking for the next adventure.
i think: about the next project i can do before i have finished my current one.
i know: i should exercise more, but it is really [...]

Sometimes you just have to step and do something before you are understand how much it will mean to you. I don’t know why I don’t just get out and experience things like I should, because my visit to the Houston International Festival today (with Jessica and Amy) was well worth the time!
The Houston [...]

The cast of Sleeping Beauty (Houston Grand Opera’s “Opera to Go!“) drove a little further than normal last Friday to perform for the Mayberry-like town of Livingston, Texas. We really enjoyed our visit to Livingston and were received great responses from children and teachers alike.

One unique opportunity was to perform for a small group [...]

Remember what I was saying recently about the power of music in a specific context? Well, this video is a great (and really hilarious) example of just that!

This story from NPR really inspired me.  It’s about a man who got mugged in NYC and turned the experience into a story of true hope. 

*I began logging these thoughts a week ago while preparing for performances of the St. Matthew Passion this past Holy Week.

I am currently sitting and waiting for my turn to sing my arias in rehearsal at Christ the King for the Bach St. Matthew Passion. As I sit here, I find myself reflecting on [...]