I have a lot of extreme ideas about music.
You can probably tell just by looking at the title of my new book: Music to Raise the Dead—which is currently available only on The Honest Broker.
In my worldview, conductors take charge of things much larger than an orchestra—that little stick they hold was originally a magic wand. Their songs are supposed to heal, to sanctify, to empower, to transform….and even to destroy.
That’s my kind of musicology. Along the way, I insist that musicians created the first legal codes. And musicians laid the groundwork for philosophy. And did many other things on the largest scale imaginable—preserving history, codifying knowledge, and interceding with the divine.
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