Welcome to
Music and Meditations!
This is a
blog about music: playing music, listening to music, thinking about music, and
how music affects our lives. I hope you’ll come back and read the posts and
share your own thoughts and experiences. Part of my intent is to get a
discussion started about anything relating to music.
A little
background about me: I’ve been playing the piano and singing since before I can
remember. I’ve played the guitar since I was eleven. I started performing as soon as an opportunity presented itself. I've been teaching piano
for 30 years, and guitar and voice for almost as long. Throughout those years
I’ve developed a number of ideas and philosophies about music (piano in
particular, but not exclusively), and about how we live and grow with music as
a part of our lives. Inspired by these ideas, some years ago I started writing a
book called Keys to Life: Life’s Lessons
Learned at the Piano. But not all of my ideas would fit into the book. That’s
part of why I started this blog, as a forum for my other thoughts.
So sometimes
the blog will be an excerpt from my book, sometimes it will be a rumination or
discovery about music and people, sometimes it will be a link to a youtube clip
of something I found fascinating, and sometimes it will be a neat quote I found
about music or musicians.
Since I’m a
pianist, guitarist, singer, performer and teacher, my ideas and experiences
naturally center around those activities, but I hope they will apply to other
musicians as well as music lovers in general.
So stay,
read, comment. It is good that you came.
Julie
If you would
like to learn more about me, please visit my other sites:
www.juliemoffitt.com
http://www.facebook.com/juliemoffitt9
Poetry:
Earthshine: a poetry journal(Sally Zaino/Julie Moffitt co-editors)
