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Hey guys!! ThatViolaKid here for another vlog!! This time, we’re gonna talk about WHY. Why on Earth would anyone play music instead of making BIG MONEY doing ANYTHING else?? Why not just get an MBA and work my way up the corporate ladder!? My answer might surprise you.

A year ago last week, I packed a small duffel bag, placed my cello in a secure corner of my Rochester apartment, and walked a short ways to the Rochester Amtrak station to catch the noon train to Boston. The trip was momentous for a couple reasons: for one, it marked my first return to […]

Those of you who follow me regularly will know that “athleticism” is not a word that appears in my vocabulary. I can’t hit a baseball to save my life, couldn’t do a somersault if you paid me, and have always associated “P.E.” with the words “Physical Embarassment.” Thus, for the majority of my college years, […]

Hey you! Yeah, YOU! Do you hate Classical Music? Is it took difficult to understand, or is it just too boring for your awesome musical tastes?? If you said YES to any of those questions, you HAVE to watch this video!

Music organizations are among those who are thinking hard about how to attract millennials to their events.  (By the way, millenials represent the generation born between the early 1980st and the early 2000s.)   Articles on this topic are popping up frequently, and Thomas Cott recently devoted an edition of his popular daily “You’ve Cott Mail” […]

The other night, I was watching TV when a commercial came on for the new Dodge Challenger. As the proud new owner of a 2015 Honda Fit, I don’t pay too much attention to car commercials these days, but perked up when the advertisement began to deviate from the usual new-car-driving-through-CGI-landscapes variety. In the commercial, which […]

  Hey everyone! ThatViolaKid here! I hope everyone has had a wonderful start to their year–I know I have! My past few posts have begun to tackle the issue of Classical Music’s relevance in modern-day society and I want to keep that conversation going! While going to school at Juilliard, I’m meeting wonderful people on […]

Last Sunday, I experienced my first spring concert as a faculty member in the Music for Youth Suzuki program based in Arlington Heights, IL. Originally started in the 1970s as a result of cuts to music programs in Arlington Heights’s primary school district, Music for Youth is unique it that it offers stringed-instrument instruction to […]

Polyphonic is pleased to host two hangouts this spring, on March 17th and April 14th, both at 8pm eastern.  On March 17th, we will interview Dr. Ramon Ricker and discuss the topic of Music Entrepreneurship.  On April 14th, we will interview Nancy Christensen and get her expert thoughts on artist management. You can participate in […]

Greetings, everyone! This is the latest installment of my irregular, infinite-part quasi-series, “Updates from the Real World.” Things have gotten quite busy out in these here parts–a spring concert is already on the horizon in one of the programs I teach at (ironically, our last rehearsal had to be cancelled due to a snow day) […]