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Merrill Crissey
Oct 21, 20191 min read
Sunrise on a New World
If you've ever started a new venture, if you've ever moved to the big city, if you've ever begun a new life you'll understand how I felt....
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Merrill Crissey
Sep 24, 20194 min read
How Much Money Can You Make on Spotify?
I sometimes wonder if I will ever get to the point where I can do music full time? If I only ever made money on Spotify the answer is......
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Merrill Crissey
Aug 21, 20193 min read
One Weird Trick to Break Through Writer's Block
You've probably seen the hashtags or reddit threads where people post their "shower thoughts." Many of them are quite funny, but there...
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Merrill Crissey
Aug 14, 20194 min read
Try Classical Music Again (Now with 70% Less Mozart!)
When it comes to most-listened-to musical genres pop music is still king. But the music we now refer to as "classical" was actually sort...
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Merrill Crissey
Aug 8, 20193 min read
Will It Be Awesome?
Several years ago, I had a very humorous boss who used to always ask us the same few questions. This would come at times when you were...
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Merrill Crissey
Aug 1, 20193 min read
Japan and Music: Two of the Finest Things I've Ever found
In the fall of 2001, just a month after the attacks of 9/11, I boarded a plane bound for Osaka, Japan. It would be the first of many...
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Merrill Crissey
Jun 10, 20192 min read
First Rain of Summer by Ben Crosland
It's almost officially summer and I'd like to begin it with a review of a wonderfully appropriate piece by Ben Crosland called "First Rain o
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Merrill Crissey
Jun 6, 20192 min read
Writing for Fans not Phantoms
Modern classical music has become a respected genre in the last ten years or so thanks to the likes of Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds. The...
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