My Mom’s AMAZING Method for Early Childhood Education
IMPROVED LANGUAGE, MOVEMENT AND SELF-REGULATION THROUGH USE OF MELODY’S METHOD Introduction The purpose of this paper is to introduce a musically based intervention for young children with disabilities, ages 2-5, developed at the Melody Arons Center in Teaneck, New Jersey. It was developed from an abiding interest in the healing powers of music, | read more…
Speaker audition excerpt
You should see people’s faces when I tell them what I do for a living. I am a dancing trombone player. I know. I don’t look the part. Because of my average white guy build, most people expect that I would be an accountant, doctor, or lawyer or something. Or that if I am a | read more…
Chapter 11 Excerpt From My Book
“Great White Hope” The “great white hope” was a phrase first coined in the 1967 play of the same name by Howard Slackler about a character loosely based on Jack Johnson, the first African-American World Heavyweight Champion who won the title in 1908. After winning the title from a white man in Australia, Jack Johnson | read more…
My First Music Video
A tribute to my favorite news anchor, the smart and beautiful Alex Wagner on MSNBC!
Saturday Brunch Standards
This has got to be one of the most fun gigs I’ve done in my life. I’ve finally gotten around to doing what I’ve always been afraid of doing – singing jazz standards as dinner music and being a little lounge lizard and piano-man-like. Feel like I’m reinventing myself in the best way possible.
The Race Issue: Money and Melanin
Whenever the race issue is discussed in media, the main focus seems to be defining success by material accomplishment – primarily money and melanin. What is often discussed is the need to more equally link economic and intellectual accomplishments/opportunities with various skin colors, melanin. What is much less often emphasized is equally linking sensual, emotional, creative, | read more…
Golden Rule versus Darwin
A few weeks ago, I had the realization that it seems every action people take is either with the intent of “doing unto others as they would do unto you”, or with the intent of “surviving as the fittest”. In other words, everything I do is either with the hope that some will reciprocate a | read more…
Choices
If I have to choose between the power of music and believing that God can only be known by one name, I will choose the power of music every time. However, when I am within the context of those who believe in Jesus Christ, I will respect their name. When I am within the context | read more…