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Piano lessons with Dave Ratcliffe – photo from Ratical.org
Every Good Boy Does FineVariations on a Theme[21 February 2008] by Chadwick JenkinsRequired to take a music class in high school I signed up for chorus, but the teacher offered me $50 to drop the class – and other ruminations about learning to play the piano.
Variations on a Theme
The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding StasisChadwick Jenkins02.Jul.08 What happens to the ear when it receives musical sound? Do we hear "our" music as music and the rest as noise? 
The Practicality of the Impossible: John Cage and the Freeman EtudesChadwick Jenkins02.May.08 John Cage replaces the comforting order of the cosmos with the recalcitrant, indecipherable organization of a part of the universe. Each sound, radically set off from the others, demands that we hear it in isolation. 
Restoring Intellectual DayChadwick Jenkins17.Jan.08 It rankles my sensibilities that great music is considered "timeless" and therefore Handel's music still "means" today whatever it was it meant in his own time.
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