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April 2023

March 2023

"Forging New Paths" in the Early Pandemic
Two 2020 essays by Ryan Muncy and me on how old lessons from music can still save us. How sometimes it's not enough to imagine: we have to instigate…
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
Nothing Compares 2 U
Remembering Ryan Muncy, the spring of 2020, and his lessons about how to survive a new normal.
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
On Teaching Entrepreneurship
When the word is both a wound and its medicine, we must remember that there is always an alternative.
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The Homunculus
When I quit playing music and took up psychology, I began to see how my brain, my body, and my life were all three bent to the shape of music.
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Tanya Kalmanovitch

February 2023

March 2022

February 2022

Week 2.1 Preamble: Magical Thinking About Music
If music makes the world a better place, then why are things so bad?
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Tanya Kalmanovitch
Open thread: "What we pay attention to grows"
If what we pay attention to grows, what do you want to pay attention to and grow over these next 12 weeks? adrienne maree brown writes about “at…
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Week 1 Lecture: Begin
I’m a musician, and a pillar of my teaching practice is “entrepreneurship.” Usually, this boils down to my teaching younger musicians how to build…
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