The Hermitage Artist Retreat surprised me this August by inviting me to become a Hermitage Fellow for the 2022-2024 cycle. With no application process, a national curatorial council awards Hermitage Fellows residency time at the historic Hermitage Artist Retreat in the Florida Keys. There, artists from diverse disciplines rest, reflect, create, and share their art […]
Music Camp as Radical Catalyst
So you’re back from music camp! At their best, music camps are radical catalysts for learning. Your mind brims with memories, teachings, discoveries, and good intentions for continuing your development. You’re determined to return the following year a much-improved musician. Sadly, our best intentions for self-improvement often go unrealized unless we apply discipline, strategy, planning, […]
Road to Nowhere: Covering a Classic
What’s the first CD you ever bought? Back in the 80’s, when those shiny new laser disks appeared in elongated cardboard packages, my first purchase was Talking Heads’ Little Creatures. I enjoyed the entire album, but I particularly liked to play the final track, “Road to Nowhere,” on endless repeat. ABOVE: Watch David Wallace & Friends perform […]
2016: Take a Career and Creative Inventory
2016 was the worst year ever?!! Enough bellyaching. Set aside death, disappointment, and global chaos for a moment. Take a creative inventory of your life and career. Reflect on the good things that happened over your past 12 months. Document them, and celebrate! At the end of each year, I take a “career and creative […]
Look Out, World, Here Comes docwallacemusic.com!!
DocWallaceMusic has a website? I can hardly believe it. . . After years of dreaming, procrastinating, and pouring all my energy into living the life of a musician, composer, and teaching artist based in New York City, I’m finally launching a website! What’s that, Vi? (Vi Wickam‘s my web guru / personal-mentor-in-all-things-internet). This post is […]