I am, by nature, an optimist. I wear my smile inside and I am generally able to feel its resonance come forward, providing an overall lightness of being during my […]
A Smile and a Hymn of Thanks
November 23, 2020
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Brahms and Chicken Curry With a Side of Integrity
July 13, 2020
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I will admit that it has been a bit difficult for me to listen to music or watch pre-COVID performance videos as our absence from the concert hall and theatres […]
“The Hanukkah Story” World Premiere!
December 15, 2021
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Music review: A musical gift for everyone Written By: Sheryl Jensen, For the Duluth News Tribune | 4:28 pm, Dec. 7, 2021 Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra Dirk Meyer, conductorDecember 4, 2021 “With Christmas […]
Why We Do That Which We Do…
July 15, 2018
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I write music. I conduct concerts. I teach. Invariably, with the state of the world being what it is, there are several moments of each passing day during which I […]
Under the Stony Gaze of Four Presidents
December 3, 2017
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In July of 2007, I was honored to lead the Young Musicians Foundation Balmat National Orchestra Camp in a performance at the foot of Mount Rushmore. Ninety high school student […]
Captain Stubing Bought Me My First Set of Tails
October 29, 2016
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A dark blue corduroy suit. It was late August, 1980 and, at the age of sixteen, I was making my debut at Tanglewood on Parade with the Boston University Tanglewood […]
On Leadership and Joy
October 12, 2016
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Sermon I wrote and presented at Congregation Beth El in Bangor, ME Yom Kippur Service 10/12/16 My father once asked me a question when I was just three years old. […]
In Truth – The Genesis of a CD
September 1, 2015
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The journey from the concert hall to a commercial recording is not one which many new musical works are granted the opportunity to take. In the case of my own Concerto […]
Life Without Art
December 15, 2013
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Life without the Arts is life devoid of expression… the Arts are the most powerful means by which humans can express their innermost feelings in ways that transcend time and environment.
The Live Orchestra
November 25, 2013
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My summers, as a child, were largely spent in my mother’s upstate New York hometown of Albany where, when we weren’t attending summer camp, we were whisked away by my dear uncle, Alfred, to attend concerts at Tanglewood…