Category Archives: Featured
Quantum Leaps
Have you ever made a quantum leap in your practicing? You’ve tried, and tried. Put in more and more effort. Doggedly plugged away forever. And still you don’t get it. Until one day, you let go somehow. Maybe you stepped away for a while, and you’re less invested in getting it perfect now. And lo [...]
Happy new year!
Checking in to say that I am now an official teacher of the Alexander Technique! It’s been a long, life-changing and thoroughly worth it road to get here. I’ll say more about the details of my story in later posts. For now, however, I am thrilled to say that I am offering lessons here in [...]
Announcing: Enhanced Lessons!
How are things in your musical world? Otherwise? I have been busy this fall with the onset of a new group of young violin students. Enthusiastic, full of energy – often hard to direct that energy towards the study of the violin, but that is the special joy/challenge of grade schoolers! However, I have a [...]
Podcast: Stephen Nachmanovitch, Author and Improviser
Stephen Nachmanovitch performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist, and at the intersections of music, dance, theater, and multimedia arts. He is the author of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Penguin, 1990). Born in 1950, he studied at Harvard and the University of California, where he earned a Ph.D. in the History [...]
Spiffed up the site, and my musical autobiography.
Hey there! I’ve made a bunch of updates to the About + Contact, What I Do, and Why I Do It pages, which I think you all will enjoy. So please check them out if you haven’t already! I recently was inspired to write my musical autobiography, and thought it was great to see a [...]
PAMA Symposium Highlights
I’ve been back from the PAMA symposium for about 2 weeks or so, but it hardly feels that way as I’ve had a lot to mull over. Here’s a couple of impressions: – There were so many interesting lectures, so many, in fact, that it was hard to attend to them all as there was [...]
Exercise terminology for the exercise-allergic: Part 1
I completely and totally understand those who have an allergy to exercise terminology. I come from a proud line of the exercise-averse. I never set foot in a gym until mid-college, when it occurred to me that since I was about to begin physical therapy school, I ought to become familiar with gym equipment. I [...]
Emily Wright, cellist
Emily Wright has played and taught professionally for nearly two decades. She has toured the US and UK extensively, and most recently completed teaching workshops in the southern states, making stops in Austin, Dallas, Atlanta and Miami. She battled pain and various injuries due to over practicing and what she calls “lousy technique” in her [...]
Patrick Smith, Guitarist
Patrick Smith has written & performed his music with oDD CamP, The Solaris Guitar Trio, FingerPaint, and as a soloist. His works for dance have been performed in New York, Richmond, Philadelphia, and at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC. His blog “A Journeyman’s Way Home” can be found here, [...]
Improvisation, and being Metro accessible.
Just a few updates on the state of Harmonious Bodies: First, I am loving the new downtown DC Wednesday location! It is only half a block from the Farragut West metro stop. This also means that it is only half a block away from Pret a Manger’s falafel and red pepper wraps for lunch. Definitely [...]
