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Art and the Now, or Why Brad Mehldau's Crock's a Crock
August 29 2010

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. - Joyce, Ulysses 9 “Be in the now.” What a crock!- Brad Mehldau (jazz pianist) The Pianobabbler has embarked on the rich voyage of Joyce’...
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The Unvacationing Artist
August 23 2010

Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.- Philip Roth, Everyman The Pianobabbler is on vacation. The Pianobabbler is at work. Vacation. Work. Different words, same referent. Artists will grasp this instantly: behind the glamorized, rhaps...
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Rilke. Letters. Art. Life.
August 15 2010

Rainer Maria Rilke. Don’t assume everyone knows of him (ignore the Maria- Rilke was a man.) If you do know of him, let the Pianobabbler restock your memory’s stores. If you don’t know of him, then do. Do, as in, do yourself a service. read full post
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Living in the 'No': What it Takes to be a Professional Artist
August 08 2010

What does it take to be a professional artist? Technique? Practice? Vision? Talent? From technique, practice, vision, and talent sprouts only the artist, not the professional. The question remains: What does it take to be a professional artist? Persistence. Ambition...
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Toronto: The World's Flower in Art's Garden
August 02 2010

Some tell you how good they are. Some just show you. Toronto artists won’t tell you how good they are. Their art will. This Toronotonian, the Pianobabbler, will abandon his Canadian reserve, tell you, and would love to show you that Toronto has matured into a world art city. New...
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Pleasure Points of Music
July 25 2010

The Pianobabbler has been thinking. Again. About music. And the music business. Again. Pithily. Compact points. To wit: 1. Make music for both yourself and others. If you make it only for yourself, others will shut off. If you make it only for others, you will. 2. Never apologize for...
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Racism's Ravages Revenged
July 18 2010

The ravages racism has wrought. The tragedies. The brutal waste. Civilisation in general. Music in particular. Many suffered and died at the hands of intolerance. Some, however, faced with the racists’ closed ‘no’, found portals of ‘yes’ in maligned outposts of music. They, with...
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