January 2021

Profile of the Month: Richard Spears

What is sitting on my desk right now?In addition to all the computer stuff and unfinished Christmas cards and Christmas letters, I have the score for the first suite of Claude Balbastre’s collection of noëls . There are four suites, and each one contains 6 noëls.  Each noël has about 8 variations totalling 192 variations, each of which is to be played twice. If each variation takes 30 second on average, that is about three hours and 12 minutes of uninterrupted noël. I wonder if thoughts such...

From AGO National Headquarters

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.Emily Dickinson As we light our Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa candles, my wish for each of you is that 2021 will bring good health, job stability and...

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