aglevine2Aug 32 min readMusic and Poetry: Cousins Who Like Each OtherFor the wonderful Summer poetry reading series that Poet Laureate Emerita of Ridgefield, Barb Jennes, puts together each year, we had a...
aglevine2Aug 34 min readInevitabilities- in music and in lifeWhat is for you will not pass you by. In 1985, I went to hear the great Austrian pianist, Rudolph Serkin play Beethoven at Carnegie Hall....
aglevine2Jan 41 min readWhat does it mean to grow as a composer? Part one.We are all looking to grow in our compositional art and practice but how do we do that? What does it mean to grow as a composer? Is it...
aglevine2Oct 10, 20231 min readAnd then the audience shows up.On Saturday night, October 7th, after a pretty dreary day of rain, one hundred and seventy two people found their way into the sanctuary...
aglevine2Oct 2, 20231 min readWhy do we still gather? And rehearse...We are in the last week of preparations for a concert of my compositions at Jesse Lee Memorial Methodist Church. 14 compositions. 21...
aglevine2Sep 12, 20231 min readProphets and propheciesSeptember 9, 2023 Just under a month now from Oct 7th -the concert of my music entitled, Why Do We Still Gather? I thought I’d share a...
aglevine2Sep 12, 20231 min readBMI takes late bloomers...really late bloomersI passed Isabelle Byman, my professor for piano pedagogy, in the hallway of Manhattan School of Music shortly after I played my jury....