Greetings and welcome to another Flute Friday! Journaling has been around for centuries and is widely considered a healthy way to confront some of the difficulties in one’s daily life. Often, just the act of writing down your goals or challenges may help you to think critically about the next course of action or how you…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday! My husband and I are children of the 90s. Most of the music on our respective iPods originates from circa 1991-2001 and our movie collection is filled with feel good, cheesy 90s movies such as Forrest Gump, Clueless, Airheads, Titanic, and Hook. Recently, in good 90s kid…

Greetings and welcome to another Flute Friday! Earlier this week, I teamed up with my husband to host a guest lecture on writing in the arts. This was wonderful timing as I had just drafted an article on blogging and was eager to speak about my own approaches to writing about music and the joys…

Welcome to another Flute Friday! Happy Easter to those celebrating this upcoming Sunday. May your Easter baskets runeth over.   I often discuss finding musical inspiration in my weekly posts, whether in relation to playing, writing, or teaching. In some instances, however, all we really need is a few words of wisdom. In today’s blog,…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Sunday/Weekend! We return this week to another installment in the Practice Blueprints series. The Muczynski Sonata for Flute and Piano is a bizarre, but not quite off the tracks, genre of work that appeals to the budding flutist wanting to do something a bit different from the norm. Before diving…