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	<description>Music Composition, Creativity, Reason and Accountability</description>
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		<title>Einstein, Bruner and Rand on Art and Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I offer three astute quotes about the importance of the individual, our creativity, life's possibilities and how we relate to music.  Each of these three observations come from divergent disciplines.  Physicist Albert Einstein, psychologist Jerome Bruno and philosopher Ayn Rand bring the gift of perspective and importance to what we do daily as composers, musicians, performers and entrepreneurs.  
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		<title>The Color of Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is about the perceived color of tonal centers and why and how we may prefer to use or play in one key over another. ]]></description>
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		<title>Vocal Performance Master Class DeSales University with Dennis Razze</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gary Powell
 Dennis Razze, musical theatre specialist at DeSales University, has invited me to present a vocal master class on campus this March 24-25, 2007.  This post is an invitation to you, the students, and me to get to know one another before the workshop.  I want to hear your comments, suggestions, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shiver Quiver Chill and Thrill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recording discipline of audio engineering has much to teach us about the relationship of sound and the human body.]]></description>
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		<title>The Relativity and Integration of Spacetime and Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s at play here is your very personal brain’s recognition of a complex combination of musical elements; elements like instrumentation, texture, timbre, chordal voicing, chordal inversion, equalization, ambient sound, room reverberation AND..... whether or not you were hearing this song while getting your first kiss!]]></description>
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		<title>The Off-the-Chain Songwriter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 03:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Songwriting tools and songwriting skills  have been lost in the homogenization of the country.]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology of the Artist&#8230;&#8230; (or how to most efficiently shoot one&#8217;s self in the foot)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture, politics, belief systems, family and psychology are all having their way with us as artists.  Untangling all of it as a young person is nearly impossible.]]></description>
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		<title>Which Comes First: the Voice or the Ear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Powell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inraptured in our own vocal magnificence it is difficult to go backward towards listening again.  It is a step, however, that must not be skipped if a singer wants to progress as ...an instrument.]]></description>
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