"Sound is the source of all manifestation...the knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe" (Hazrat Inayat Khan)
When I read Hazrat Khan’s book The Mysticism of Sound and Music, I was humbled. Students who have taken my music courses know how saddened I am that for most modern people music is background entertainment for something else that is being done; that the music business has turned music into recorded sound commodities, that music is wallpaper. This surely is not the music and sound that Pir Khan writes about nor what I have experienced in my life with music. So I have decided to approach my music classes with this degree of seriousness.
I love teaching at Oakton and Truman College because of the students and what we have discovered together. The only thing that separates me as a teacher from the students is years of experience in music. I have been involved in making music, teaching music, learning music for nearly 50 years.
Consider the above picture of my oud, that number and you know something about me. Plus I love cooking, plants, my husband, a few friends and dogs and not necessarily in any particular order.
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