Welcome to JohnCraigHubbard.com!

Thank you so much for visiting this brand new web page.

Most musicians and artists would agree: it can be an uncomfortable experience crafting a website. You must distill yourself into an image and package your work and then set it adrift on that seething sea of metadata and "shareable content" we call the Internet.

But artists are not their web pages; they are not their resumes.

Artists are unpredictable and nuanced. We are at times debilitatingly insecure (pathetically so!) and at other times heroically courageous. We are impulsive and introspective. Life affirming and obnoxiously contrarian.

This "blog" exists so that I can punch holes in my two-dimensional website, and fill it with something more fluid and organic: my thoughts and contributions where they concern all of us, as lovers of art, insatiable consumers and recyclers of music, revelers in a sonic multiverse, craftspeople of sound, arbiters of aesthetic, and human beings making our way through everything from Weltschmerz to Joie de vivre.

Here is an arbitrary list of things I'm interested in:

_Performance practice TODAY. Performance practice hundreds of years ago. Performance practice last week.

_Audiences, their needs, how we can help them move closer to a deep and fulfilling understanding of the music they hear.

_Interdisciplinarianism and immersive musical, artistic, and aesthetic experiences.

_Postmodernism and playing with genre, dissolving or flexing hackneyed boundaries around our roles as performers, listeners, composers, educators, students, and critics.

_What motivates kids to love music and invest themselves in it?

_Making old music emotionally relevant and new music timelessly classic.

_What is the horn?

_How to be better every day.

_The lifestyles of musicians: their struggles and triumphs.

_Music as an economy: an undulating stock exchange, both of real money, but also of experiences, individual connections to people, and savory memories, without which we would be bankrupt.

_Repertoire, repertoire, repertoire.

I'm looking forward to posting here regularly on these topics and others. Stay tuned!

_Craig

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