An entertaining and instructive video clip on Conductor B. Zander on his mission to get more listeners turned onto classical music.
Archive for July, 2008
Benjamin Zander and leadership in promoting classical music
Monday, July 14th, 2008The Myth of Multitasking
Friday, July 11th, 2008CHRISTINE ROSEN, the New Atlantis:
In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.” To Chesterfield, singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence. “This steady and undissipated attention to one object, is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation, are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.” more from article
