“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” –Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) When I was younger, I struggled with my professional identity. Here I was – composing songs, playing piano, conducting ensembles – while the news were full of war, pollution, people living in horrible...
Author: Markus Hauck (Markus Hauck)
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On That Note… – December 2012
Occasionally I meet someone who says they might like to sing in the choir, but consider themselves not gifted with a beautiful voice. Well, I can relate to that. When I sent my application for admission to Berklee College of Music in Boston, I indicated that my principal instrument was electric bass. After I got...