Month: November 2015
“Can I make a living as a musician? Yes: Cultivate these Entrepreneurial Strategies that work!” (Part 3)
In my previous posts in this series, I’ve highlighted why we musicians must become more entrepreneurial to achieve greater success. In this final post in the series, I want to highlight three practical recommendations that can become winning strategies for you. No. 1 Use Computers and the Internet MIT economists McAfee and Brynjolfsson have focused […]
Read MoreThinking About Star Wars Music
I only occasionally read “top 10” type posts on Facebook, but I could not resist writing a little along that line tonight. I drove to Sarasota today from Tallahassee. It’s about a 5-hour drive south (for all of you readers who live outside of Florida)—barring traffic jams around Tampa! I was asked to attend a […]
Read MoreA Tribute to My Musical Mother
{Welcome to this expanded post, “A Tribute to My Musical Mother.” I added the original version of this tribute to my blog in November 2015. The expanded version includes additional photographs and several musical selections performed by my mother, Jean Pelkey. Enjoy! scp August 10, 2016} Many of you enjoyed reading my tribute to my musical […]
Read MoreNovember 2015 Viewing
I started to re-watch David Lynch’s 1984 film version of Frank Herbert’s science fiction masterpiece, Dune, this evening. I’ve watched this film from beginning to end at least two times during the past twenty years. I couldn’t bear to do it again tonight. I dropped out after about an hour. Have you read this amazing book? Have you […]
Read MoreAre you a professional musician? Please take my poll.
Hello, Reader! I am very interested in learning more about how my visitors who may be musicians have been trained and how they engage in musical activities as a source of income. Would you please consider taking this poll? The results may help me better understand how to support college musicians in their professional development […]
Read More“Can I make a living as a musician? Yes, especially if you think like a music entrepreneur!” (Part 2)
{Please note that this is a continuation of an earlier post on music entrepreneurship.} In my first post in this series, I noted that some of the best music schools, colleges, and conservatories in the United States are getting serious about training students as musical entrepreneurs. But what is driving all of the entrepreneurship talk […]
Read MoreNovember 2015 Recordings
This month finds me revisting recordings of Shostakovich symphonies as well as exploring recordings of his piano concertos. I am also listening again to several recordings of music by William Schuman.
Read MoreA Tribute to My Musical Father
November 8, 2015 The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. I’ve been increasingly aware of the truth of that old saw as I have pushed into middle age. Every time I get a hair cut, I swear my father is looking back at me in the mirror! That’s not a bad thing in and of […]
Read More“Can I make a living as a musician? Yes, especially if you think like a music entrepreneur!” (Part 1)
Some of the best music schools, colleges, and conservatories in the United States are getting serious about training students as musical entrepreneurs. A few have been in this business for over a decade. Career development and entrepreneurship for music majors and recent graduates is very important to me, and not just because my current job […]
Read MoreBoost your productivity with four simple strategies
Whether you are a college/university faculty member expected to achieve a certain level of productivity before tenure and promotion review, a scholar with a non-teaching role on campus, an adjunct scholar-teacher, or an independent scholar, you probably want to be a productive researcher or creative artist. After all, you pursued graduate training because you loved […]
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