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Views are solely my opinion. I am not a journalist and am simply publishing to share and describe my feelings. My father was born and raised in Ukraine, my mother born in Armenia and raised in Ukraine. My grandparents lived throughout Ukraine and Russia. My older brother was born in Ukraine, and a few years
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For a while I couldn’t shake this feeling that everyone around me expected me to fail. Sure, we had teachers at Vanguard who always reminded us of the opposite “everyone in the audience wants you to do well,” but learning doesn’t happen from just being told things. I don’t know, maybe I wasn’t confident. I remember after
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I’m consumed by the concept of self-worth. Its attachment to environmental factors, neurological factors, social factors… I’m trying so hard to get a grasp on the patterns in my own life that have affected my self-worth, admittedly to help myself, but also because others might relate, and understand themselves better. My head has been working
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You may have heard or read my view that music is communication. Now I’m going to dig deeper. I go so far to argue that this form of communication is separate from language. We have this lovely claim that we share wide and far that music is a language, and it is a nice idea:
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When you go study in another country, it’s respectable to learn the styles and traditions of their culture. In England, that’s the orchestral world: but my primary career interests aren’t centered in orchestral playing. As a craft it’s something I respect highly: a level of technical excellence and musicality we all strive for in our
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When you see an icon you immediately are drawn by all it entails. Coco Chanel is an example who paved the way for an incredible number of people: defining class, fashion, beauty at a standard which anyone can appreciate. We think of her when we see her her brand, a brand that contains an enormous
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When you see an icon the image connects you to all it encompasses. Coco Chanel is an woman who paved the way for an incredible number of people: defining class, fashion, beauty at a standard which anyone can appreciate. We think of her when we see her brand, a brand that contains an enormous scope,
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Gloria has appeared internationally as a performer and educator, and is especially interested in multi-disciplinary and contemporary collaboration. She performed with the World Percussion Group in its 2017 European tour, plays in the percussion duo Enamta with Liz Kung, and was a prizewinner in the Italy PAS International Vibraphone and Musical Merit Foundation competitions.