Successful Summer Violin Get-Together

This morning I had the joy of inviting my students out to the scenic locale of my studio and home in Southern California for a “Violin Get-Together” — that is to say, not exactly a workshop, nor entirely a formal group lesson, but more of a “violin party”, as one of my students, Keith Sorrells, [...]


A Thought About Great Art

“The purpose of art is to create an emotional response in the person that is exposed to that art. And there are three categories of art; bad art, good art and great art. Bad art will elicit no emotional response in the person that is exposed to it, i.e.; a song you hear in an [...]