This week sees our office staff and a handful of volunteers packing, hauling and unpacking our office effects as we prepare to leave the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts.  Moving on and into temporary quarters will require us to streamline our operation, so we are taking with us the minimum amount of  “stuff” needed to conduct business on site [...]

Three days ago I chatted with a younger friend and music colleague about “social responsibility” as a necessary part of adult life.   We mostly talked about skills and habits seen in mature persons who are responsible to the world and responsible for creating a better world as well.  My advice to my friend was based in my recall [...]