Tag: Arts

NPR: Creative Spaces

Today, on my way home, Michele Norris did the first broadcast in a series on creative spaces, the physical space in which creative people choose to create. Her first broadcast featured artist James Prosek’s studio, an old schoolhouse built in 1850. Being the creative sort myself, I know how much attention I pay to the space in which I work… Continue reading

NPR Is Awesome!

So today, this man in Atlanta got to hear a man in Washington D.C. play a Tuscan Medici Stradivarius viola manufactured in 1690.  Not only did he (me) get to hear it, but everyone who tuned in to NPR just before 9:00 A.M. got to hear it too! NPR is the greatest!  This important media outlet does not just focus… Continue reading

Classical Shell

A couple of months ago I stopped at a Shell gas station near my home. When I got out of my car I heard the most unusual thing. Many stations play easy listening or light rock music at the pumps-but not this place. I was hearing a classical symphony being played all out, full steam ahead, blasting from high above… Continue reading