I'm Back!

After a three year hiatus from Viva Vox Evangelii, I am back!  I have done a lot since 2009, namely getting married to my wonderful wife, graduating from Indiana University with a bachelor of music in trombone performance degree, starting a private low brass studio in Virginia, putting on recitals, playing concerts, and taking auditions. Now my wife and I are anxiously awaiting the birth of our little daughter in July! 


I want to get things going by letting everyone know about a wonderful early music ensemble called Concerto Palatino. These are some of the finest musicians that I have ever heard. Check out their website, buy their CDs, find some quiet time in your busy schedules, and listen to their glorious sounds.... 

Who Needs Classical Music?

Here are two quotes from a book I am reading titled, Who Needs Classical Music? Cultural Choice and Musical Value by Julian Johnson.

"The nineteenth-century writer Eduard Hanslick suggested that to judge music solely by the emotions it aroused was like trying to judge a wine while getting drunk."

". . . . Classical music fares badly today-not because it is old but because it demands an engagement of the mind through time (thought) that contemporary conceptions of music no longer recognize. Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and the intellectual, the material and the spiritual, the thinglike and its transcendence in thought. . . ."