Music cannot be single purpose. The social element it offers is critical, but it's not the only one of importance or value.
Revenge of the Domestic Dispute Part 3 – in which all questions are answered and all issues forever resolved.
The Domestic Dispute returns!
I occupied my mandated daily half hour by playing through things as best I could, trying to play fewer wrong notes each time without any conscious strategy or method, in a pseudo-Bachian optimism that if I were to hit most of the right keys at roughly the right time, the device would in fact play itself.
Posting 108 – in which a modest domestic dispute spills out into the blogosphere
Anybody who thinks I dwell in an ivory tower of music education, content to comment from afar, is sadly mistaken; as one of perhaps two Abreu Fellows who have at least one child, I’m aware how profoundly my daughter will be affected by all the choices my wife and I make for her.
Jonathan Andrew Govias 