As we celebrate the Hispanic Heritage Month, and our eyes turn towards underrepresented composers and flutists, there is a new focus on music making in our world. Nowadays, we care about diverse programing and teaching, and many of us find ourselves looking for information that is, at this moment, a bit hard to find. As…
by Danilo Mezzadri I am writing this article in an attempt to help those of us who are confronting the new reality of another semester of online lessons. I am basing this article on my own successes and failures during this past spring and summer semesters. Together with many other musicians around the globe, I…
Musicians are facing a unique set of challenges during this unprecedented time. Prior to this pandemic, we have collectively fallen accustomed to disregarding injury at the expense of taking professional auditions and advancing our careers. Our pedagogy as musicians has been largely based around the “no pain, no gain” mentality which is no longer a…
We have had time to think. And remember. A colleague once spoke of a special player who played with “Insight,” and this is what set them apart. I wondered, “what kind of playing has Insight?” I guess if you can have foresight and hindsight you can have insight, which “looks in” to something with a…
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Flutists from all over the US have participated in the annual Chinese Orphans Benefit Concerts at First Baptist Church in Madison, Wisconsin to help us support and send hundreds of rural Chinese orphans to school for the last 15 years. How much this has meant to these children, whom the rest of the world seems…
