SUNDRY UTTERANCES

This is a continuation of Part 1. As anyone reading could probably guess, I speak quite passionately about art. Though this has always been the case, this is especially true now because of where I am as a composer, both musically, and, more broadly speaking, in life. Having finished my Master’s degree and experienced the incredibly-saturated musical life that London has to offer, I returned home to Minnesota with the goal of internalizing my newly-acquired knowledge. I wanted

(Header image: Painting (Peinture) by Joan Miró. More information on the header image can be found on the Guggenheim website.) I love reading Maria Popova’s writings. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that Brain Pickings, her “one-woman labor of love — a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why” was — and remains — one of the most consistently enlightening and encouraging places on the web. It is a place to get introduced to artists and thinkers across genre and ti