“A New Approach to Singing” What if singing were also equally in- and out-breaths, so that the singer would wait at the end of every phrase for the breath to enter by itself? Read More »
“No Wrong Notes in All of Life” If there is no not-God,
then there can be no wrong notes Read More »
“All As Intended” There can be no wrong notes, for all is Intended. It's just that some are judged wrong (and that's also as Intended). Read More »
“The Primal Art” In 1940 Stravinsky delivered the Charles Eliot Norton series of lectures at Harvard University. They were entitled “The Poetics of Music.”
I feel certain that whoever came up with the title was not a musician. For it is backwards. Read More »
“Leaving a Little for the Viewer” I used to finalize all my paintings, stopping when they appeared to be balanced. Read More »
Video: The Didgeridoo & Brain Patterns The repetitive patterns that naturally arise in playing the didgeridoo are, Dr. Diamond suggests, brain patterns that need to be released. Read More »
“The Enlightened Musician” The purpose of meditation, Zen master Dogen taught, was not to become the Buddha-Nature but to realize that we already are, that we always are. Read More »
“True Musicians Go Beyond the Notes’ Virtually all musicians strive to perform the composer's music note-perfect. Read More »
“We Never Hear the True Music of the Composer” Within us, in our Deep Unconscious, there is only ever Pure, Pure Love: the God Within, the Soul, the Buddha-Nature, the Innate Perfection. Read More »
“Stagefright and the Mother’s Song” So-called stagefright
is audience fear.
And, basically, the audience
is always your mother.
So it is to them as her
that you sing. Read More »
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