by Tania | Apr 10, 2022 | Life and Music, Writing
My Vision for the Role of the Orchestra in a Community – Tania Miller I believe that music has the capacity to enrich a community and to bring the community together through the shared experience of being moved and changed by music. Music takes us on a journey...
by Tania | Apr 8, 2021 | Life and Music
Leo Tolstoy’s Question Made Me Think About My Answer Leo Tolstoy opens his 1897 book What is Art? with a humorous account of a rehearsal that he attended for what he called “one of the most ordinary” of new operas he’d ever experienced. Cynically, he relates his...
by Tania | Apr 8, 2021 | Life and Music
It’s an understanding force You might feel like you are pent up at home, working in a bubble with no real way to get out. Or you might feel cut off from your normal socialization with friends and family and that there is too much silence around you. I know I do. But...
by Tania | Apr 8, 2021 | Life and Music
It can alter your mood, give you strength and understand you when you need it most When we are suffering, sometimes it feels best to be alone. We have friends and loved ones around us, and we can reach out to them at any time, but we’d rather just be alone with our...
by Tania | Apr 8, 2021 | Life and Music
How can we live our lives so that we make plans and set our goals— but then let go and “perform” so that we are free, spontaneous, and transformative in each moment? That’s what I do as an orchestra conductor on the stage. And that’s what guitarists in a rock band or...
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