Musings & Blog

  • An hour-long ZOOM interview with UCSB students December 2022
    An hour-long ZOOM interview with UCSB students December 2022
  • My Music Is My Memoir
    Although I was writing music for friends and myself from the time I was seven, I never consciously considered becoming a composer. Throughout my training – from the Juilliard Prep through graduate school at Columbia – I was told, explicitly (since that was the attitude of the time,) that a woman could not aspire ...
  • Reflections on The NYC Climate Change March
    A day of hope and rejuvenation as 400,000 or more idealistic people of all ages from all over the globe came together to walk, sing, and laugh together in New York City on behalf of our increasingly beleaguered planet. The originality and creativity of home-made signs, floats and costumes complemented the spontaneous dancing, singing and ...