San Francisco Symphony

Today I was lucky enough to hear a soundcheck of the San Francisco Symphony in Disney Hall. It was fun for me to be there, as I subbed with the group while earning my journalism degree at Stanford a few years back. I loved seeing my old friends, like the cellist Barbara Bogatin — in [...]

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Fine Men

I’ve had good reason to distrust people lately, especially the male of the species. But in the last week, and in the face of the poor behavior of others, two men have floored me — and completely restored my faith in human beings.
I’ve been going through life in the way I was raised; behaving ethically [...]

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Flair for Genius

What with the recession, there’s been much talk of successful musicians with equally powerful parallel careers — and how they’re blasting through the recession because of multiple incomes.
It was the subject of my LA Times article on Sunday, as well as my career-consulting and public speaking company, Flair for Genius.
I’ll be talking about this exciting [...]

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Moonlight(ing) Sonata

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-moonlight11-2009jan11,0,197922.story
From the Los Angeles Times
Musicians add second careers to their repertoires
Working on a dual track is a sound idea for some, delivering artistic as well as financial rewards.
By Blair Tindall
January 11, 2009
When celebrity photographer Barbra Porter picks up her camera, such stars as Billy Bob Thornton, Garth Brooks and Eric Clapton know she’ll make them [...]

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Dad’s civil rights legacy

LLong before the term “agency” had become commonplace, he treated the black actors in his story as something other than villains or victims, showing their struggles to surmount the growing climate of racist repression that shaped South Carolina’s social and political life in the 19th century.

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