AI will change everything. Or maybe it won’t. Pundits, editorialists, substackers, friends and family weigh in on how Artificial Intelligence will or won’t change this or that or every part of our lives.

And for people in the arts? In two minutes, an AI can write fifty poems about the heartbreak of being left by a lover—poems that are technically competent, with regular meter, functional metaphors, and emotionally recognizable language. Some are moving to read. It can write fifty songs in the same amount of time, songs with lyrics, chord progressions, structure, rhyme schemes, and—if your ask was smart enough—varying song structures and different genres.

Interactive performances succeed to the degree that teaching artistry moves onto the stage and into concert traditions. And probably the boldest kind of interactive performance is the Very Open Rehearsal. Take a deep breath…you can do this.

Bookstores place the bestsellers out front. Even online, the bestsellers appear on the homepage. Well, duh. It’s Marketing 101.

Over the years, I have asked many education professionals the following question: If you were to place all your chips on one key idea upon which to stake American school reform, which gamble seems best to take?

Reflection and self-assessment—two basic, ancient, essential human processes. Do you think of them as essential to all musicians and composers?

We know a lot about the ways to spark, support and sustain the learning of students in our school residency programs.

Notes on Creativity