Dear Guests, Welcome to my blog which I treat like a creative garden where I regularly plant and change this and that be it poetry, philosophy, an Oboe Brilliance lesson, an essay of some kind, or a journal about composing. Visit every Monday for oboe coaching which is also helpful for many melodic instrumentalists. Musically yours, Kathryn

"How do you compose?" That is the most commonly asked question I hear.
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About Emotional Brilliance

Dear Guests,

Emotional Brilliance is a pertinent chapter in my work in progress pedagogy for oboe “Oboe Brilliance” but you don’t have to be a musician (in the technical sense) to practice “Emotional Brilliance” so I’m making it available separately.

My philosophy is that the core part of being a musician and music teacher, is to be “heart full” as well as “mind full”.

“Emotional Brilliance” is my liberating and disciplined path for being a consciously heart full person, teacher, and oboist. While the technical development of being an instrumentalist is core, the emotional, artistic and heart full is essential. Heart full is also core in terms of taking the audience to the other side making the musical experience a transcendent experience. Otherwise, it’s just noise or just another heartless job. So, if noise is a waste of time, then heart full is worth every second.

As far as I’m concerned the whole point of music is being heart full. If I had to save just one chapter/book of Oboe Brilliance, it has to be “Emotional Brilliance” better to live a life of heart without a musical instrument, then to live a heartless life with one! After all, a musical instrument is simply an extension of the body to transmit the heart – individual and universal. Being an instrumentalist from my school of thought is to be an amplifier for the heart to build a bridge to integrated transcendence.

Oboe Brilliance would be incomplete without Emotional Brilliance and from my perspective, life is incomplete without focus on being “mind full” and most of all “Heart Full”.

I’ve designed Emotional Brilliance carefully over years and am currently getting it down into its final presentation with this subscription of Emotional Brilliance. These exercises are ones I’ve been practicing, teaching, modifying, for one or more decades. It’s gets VERY juicy especially down the road when cultivated skills can be applied in dream work – but that’s for me to know and you to find out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah.
Musically yours,
Kathryn