The Yankee Chef ®

  I simply cannot believe that 25 years have gone by and I still miss my father as much as the day he passed. I think it is more profound no...

  This post is about children and how to get them more inclined to concerts and the orchestra. For teens, that is a little more difficult an...

. ...and then there were none.   The days of children picking up an instrument at an early age are slowly waning. I am not talking about ban...

 I have been meaning to write a blog post about this for a very long time, which is a travesty to begin with because this behavior seems to ...

 I have never gone this long without posting something and the guilt finally caught up with me.   Even though I should be out in the woods g...

I wanted to share a brief post and link to a very special young man. My son Thomas, who is 12 years old, has made the final cut of of this w...

 My 12 year old son Thomas has been playing the violin now for a little over 3 years and he has a particular knack for this instrument, as a...