Writing

• Blog: A Musician Abroad

  Welcome to the intersection of my two passions: music and literature. In order to share my musings about life as a performer, I began writing the blog "A Musician Abroad" in 2012. Then I had a dream about a dead composer on a beach, demanding that I tell his story. Alas,

• The Secret Seduction

  Like many of my generation who cannot subscribe to a religion, cannot fully give over our intellectual doubts to a nebulous higher power, I have become mired in my own mythology, obsessed with my own ethos. "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." William Ernest Henley

• The Adulation Vampires and other artistic conundrums

  Alas, my attempts to blog once a week have been superseded by the pursuit of the pound, or in less crude terms, focusing on revenue-generating activities: jobs and auditioning for more jobs. In related news, I am now on the substitute list for one of London's top orchestras, which I will be happy to

• Sexism or Irony? | Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis

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• The Guilty Pleasures of Abbey Road

  I experienced a minor epiphany today while listening to a pop song. No, it wasn't by One Direction, but it did involve my sudden and bizarre identification with the sentiments expressed by a bad-boy lead singer (it wasn't the Biebs either - I'm not a teenage girl!), as opposed to feeling like the so

• From Boxing to Bernstein

  One of the pleasures of city-dwelling, especially in a sprawling metropolis like London, is the infinite variety of activities available. Although humans are creatures of habit, sticking to the same watering holes and cuisineries and neighborhoods like a bunch of skittish gazelles, I try to be an ex

• Thank you Mark Twain...

  Welcome aboard the maiden voyage of my blog, A Musician Abroad. For those of you familiar with the magnificent American author and humorist, Mark Twain, I acknowledge my appropriation and tweaking of one of his book titles for my own title. For those of you not yet acquainted with "The Innocent