Sep 24, 2025 | Articles on Music
Following contains excerpts from Everybody Loves Our Town (An Oral History of Grunge) (Mark Yarm). Beginning in the 1980s in Seattle, Washington, young late-teen and early twenty-year-olds on a quest for typical West-coast dissipation, managed to form bands that...
Sep 10, 2025 | Articles on Music
Many times, past structures can become fuel for new creativity. In fact, the past can bring inspiration for future endeavors when an attitude of willingness to sacrifice it in total is embraced. The key is to focus on the kernel of truth at the core of the old...
Sep 10, 2025 | Articles on Music
Following are thoughts on the subject of creativity, specifically from a Biblical point of view. I have been a creator of music, and many other things, my entire life. Having been in full-time Christian ministry for 37 years, and a dedicated student of scripture, I...
Sep 10, 2025 | Articles on Music
There is a central truth about creativity that is so foundational, it may be the most important to understand out of all of them. It is the principle of the ‘Seed.’ This is one of the foundational principles we teach our students in our music school in Odessa,...
Sep 10, 2025 | Articles on Music
All creativity requires risk. Moving forward with an idea takes a certain amount of time, resources, capital, people and leadership. There are no guarantees of success. Casting vision and hope for whatever the endeavor is helps move everything forward, but there...
Sep 10, 2025 | Articles on Music
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. ...
