This week, for Music Monday, let’s learn how to practice! I’ve commissioned Mr. Butters to help demonstrate; he’s a great meowdel!
Plant Profile: Esmeralda the Dracaena
Meet Esmeralda, a Dracaena White Jewel! This is a series of plant profiles based on the houseplants in my collection. For each, I’ll take you through some basic plant facts and care information based on my research and personal experience!
Theme of the Week: Isolation
To continue from last week’s Intro to Self-Care, I want to talk about isolation for this week’s theme of the week. It might not seem like the most logical progression, but I think that to actually talk about self-care, we first have to look under the hood and think about some of the underlying factors.
Day of a (Kind of) Professional Musician
A day in the life. Totally for real.
Plant Profile: Callie the Calathea “Freddie”
Meet Callie, a Calathea “Freddie”! This is a series of plant profiles based on the houseplants in my collection. For each, I’ll take you through some basic plant facts and care information based on my research and personal experience!
Intro to Self-Care
There’s a lot of literature out there on how to care for yourself, but not a lot on why it’s important (or not?). Therefore here’s my intro to self-care, and why it has become an issue in my humble opinion.
Rehearsal Etiquette, Part 3
Part 1 was on your personal rehearsal etiquette, Part 2 was on your sectional rehearsal etiquette, so naturally Part 3 is about your orchestral rehearsal etiquette. And if this organization system doesn’t make sense, too bad. This is my party.
Plant Feature: Aloe Vera
Meet the mighty Aloe vera: the plant you might need most after my latest rehearsal etiquette installment. This is a series of plant profiles based on the houseplants in my collection. For each, I’ll take you through some basic plant facts and care information based on my research and personal experience!
Theme of the Week: Standards
My idea for Theme of the Week is to take a word or short phrase, put it under a microscope, and suck all the meaning out of it that I can. So buckle up, put your thinking cap on, and join me in thinking about standards.
Rehearsal Etiquette, Part 2
This is a continuation from Part 1, which looked at personal etiquette. Part 2 examines sectional rehearsal etiquette, or how you should behave in regards to the rest of your section. Hey so you know when you’re in rehearsal and your principal turns to you […]