Then, he worked through the score with a fine-toothed comb, just a few chords at a time — pointing out relationships between inner voices, flagging cadential motions the students had skated over ...

Here’s the lesson in a few words: Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t want to. Most CFOs will probably cringe at the first half of that quote.

In “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Robert Hilburn—a former pop-music critic for the Los Angeles Times and the author of a number of biographies, including a study of Johnny Cash ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “I hate quotations, tell me what you know,” meaning “Don’t give me this secondhand stuff, tell me your own thoughts in your own words.” Well, we would all like ...

It’s not that there’s no story, but from the perspective of, say, a struggling twentysomething musician stranded in the hostile climate of 21st-century culture, A Few Words… reads like a ...