The passion of opera Tenor Hotheads and the Women They Love All things theatrical are about telling a story and the most common story line in opera is of course a love story. The relationships in opera are dramatic and tragic, a real cross section of human flaws and virtues….
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Where Is The Train Station? Wo Ist Der Bahnhof?
You can buy those travel language books with all of the necessary phrases in it to help you navigate through foreign countries. They are good for identifying what is on the menu, but useless actually when asking anything. The famous German question for tourists is ”Wo ist der Bahnhof?” Where…
Starving Artist Finds His Best Sponsor
A starving artist finds his best sponsor is himself. How is that possible? Well, he gets smart and learns the art of marketing or better said, that unless people have heard about you your art doesn’t get very far. It may be nice to have created all of those masterpieces,…
Shut Up? NO! Speak Up! Yes!
Blogging and the flow of ideas. I am finally catching up to things that have been around already for quite some time. Blogging is one of them. Learning about the Empower Network has taught me that blogging isn’t only a poor authors platform, it is a way to hone your…
Stop Doing Little Jobs For Little Money
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylMqxLzNGo?rel=0] Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime! Having been a musician all of my professional career and especially since being in the challenging world of opera I was logically always getting to know a…
What Moved Me To Join The Empower Network
Doing the Simple Things In Life This is my father and brother a couple of summers ago at the local minor league ballpark. My mom was probably at home cooking, out shopping for us or at home taking a break from serving her men all day! I grew up in…
From One Row Behind the Mule Plowing to a Legacy
May 17, 2013 -Timothy Simpson Different Childhoods [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpWfkV_rw_A?rel=0] I grew up in suburb Kentucky. You know, the typical single story cookie cutter ranch houses that litter the landscape of America, that was my environment. My childhood was vastly different from my parents because I was a 60′s kid…
The Art of System and How it Produces Results!
Johann Sebastian Bach was the first composer in the genre of classical music that fascinated me. The music of the progressive rock group Kansas had the element of layering melodies that made the music intricate and logical and it was them who brought me to this concept, to Bach and…