Is Music a Pastime or a Passion?

I lived in Los Angeles throughout most of the 1970s. My circle of friends during those years consisted of an eclectic bunch of young people, somewhat like the cast of characters in the Seinfeld sitcom only less urbane, and more into music. Sometimes we played recorded...

1,000 Dogs

Good Thursday from Whiskey Creek, where each morning we get up to the bizarre sight of six acres cluttered with plants and trees and bushes that are convinced we’re in the middle of spring. And there’s no reasoning with them. I’ll tell you something not many people...

10,000 hours. Really?

(We’re pleased to re-resent an early column from Bill Evans.  RC)Sooner or later, often around the breakfast table at a music camp, conversation will turn to “that 10,000-Hour Rule thing.” What’s that? In his 2008 best seller “Outliers,” journalist Malcolm...