Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Music as a Spiritual Force 1
4. Geist 4
5. The Rothko Chapel 9
6. Wondering and Thinking Music 12
7. Privacy 15
8. The Touchy Spirit 17
9. What Is Music? 20
10. Music’s Basic Elements 22
11. The Thin Line 28
12. Not Making a Profit 32
13. Unexpected Houston 35
14. Practice 41
15. Music and Spirituality 42
16. The Ineffable 45
17. The Expertrap 48
18. Why? 50
19. Our Stuff 53
20. Iniquities of Inequity 60
21. Dead White Guys 63
22. Righting the Unwritable 65
23. The Journey 69
24. The World of the Imagination 72
25. Is One Person’s Noise Worth More than Another’s Silence ? 76
26. The Biz 79
27. Indefinable Malaise 87
28. The Grand One 93
29. The Artist Apollo and Company 96
30. The Gravity of the Decline of Arts Education 100
31. The Elusive Art 104
32. From Heavenly Harmony 114
33. Conducting a Life 121
34. Our Contribution to the Human Spirit 128
35. It Goes On 133
36. Hoffnung 143
37. Beliefs 145
38. New Harmony 152
39. Acknowledgments 157
40. Index 159