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		<title>Why a blog now?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been six months since I moved to Arizona. For the last four years in Boston, I was teaching elementary general music, basing most of my curriculum on my Kodaly training. When I moved, I decided not to take a teaching job, and instead to try to make a career of being a musician. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been six months since I moved to Arizona. For the last four years in Boston, I was teaching elementary general music, basing most of my curriculum on my <a href="http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/summer/institutes/KodalyMusicInstitute.html">Kodaly training</a>. When I moved, I decided not to take a teaching job, and instead to try to make a career of being a musician. I miss teaching a lot, but not enough to go back just yet.</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m definitely a professional musician now, and thought that friends and family might like to to check this site occasionally to hear what I&#8217;ve been doing lately. Let me know if it&#8217;s useful to you, or if it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s been fun for me so far.</p>
<p>I now work at <a href="http://www.onelightmusic.com/">One Light Music Productions, Inc.</a>, and my job title is Composer/Arranger. I just had my six-month review, and my boss and I agreed that I was doing an excellent job. We create custom music for various clients, including a karaoke record label in New York. We also run two big websites: <a href="http://www.productiontrax.com/">Productiontrax</a>, which is a major player in the royalty-free music and media industry, and <a href="http://www.spiritrax.com/">Spiritrax</a>, which sells religious karaoke music.</p>
<p>I used to dream during college about being a professional composer/arranger, but I could never afford the computer gear that professional composers are expected to have these days. So getting paid to write music on someone else&#8217;s equipment is a real dream come true.</p>
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