Berklee College of Music in Boston is widely regarded as one of the top institutions in the United States for contemporary music education. David Bowie has an enduring relationship with the school. It is the only college to award Bowie…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! Read on for summaries of Bowie-related stories that posted this past week, and click on the bolded story names to link to the original articles… — NEWS 1984 Musical Debuts in Boston…
Longtime Bowie guitarist Earl Slick returned to the Berklee College of Music last week to impart lessons from his 50+ years as a musician to students, some of whom joined him on stage for a mini-concert of Bowie songs. I…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! Be forewarned that this week was light on actual news and heavy on content I call “churnalism” and similarly familiar, repackaged material. This extends to many of the “features and reflections” this…
This past weekend, my wife and I went on a sprint to three concerts, where we got to see a total of six acts over a span of two days and approximately 270 total miles. This is a Bowie blog,…
Earlier this year, I attended an amazing concert at the Berklee College of Music in Boston titled Music and Meaning in the Works of David Bowie. The concert featured Berklee students, who were joined on stage by longtime Bowie guitarist…
Welcome to my weekly roundup of Bowie news! Click on the bolded article titles to read the originals. There was remarkably little actual news related to Bowie this week. For the second week in a row, that space seemed to…
I came across this curiosity while reviewing candidates for “cover of the week.” But I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. This is, in fact, a cover, but it isn’t a Bowie cover. It’s a cover of a…
In this interview, I had the pleasure of speaking with Professor Gretchen Shae, a musician, educator, and expert on David Bowie. Gretchen teaches at Berklee College of Music (which awarded Bowie an honorary degree in 1999) and leads a thought-provoking…
Did you ever have a class in which you thought the teacher was a rock star? Well, at Berklee College of Music, that thought isn’t just metaphorical—it’s a reality. Meet Professor Gretchen Shae, a dynamic writing instructor in the Liberal…