Jeremy Weinglass: Blog

Life seems to be moving at an ever faster pace these days.  I am constantly booked with gigs, rehearsals and meetings all in an effort to take my career to the next level of success.  This is why a few weeks ago Kim and I decided to take a week long vacation to Sedona, as it would likely be our last chance to get away for quite a while.  The day after receiving my completed Odyssey CDs in the mail, we hit the road to experience the vortexes, do some hiking, yoga, meditating, and to see the Grand Canyon for the first time!
The whole trip was energizing and relaxing at the same time.  We learned about the history of Sedona and the vortexes from a local Native American as well as a yoga instructor.  We also discovered some local wineries and did some wine tasting. We took a trip up to the historic town of Jerome that is now an artist's haven and admired the abundance of unique art in the shops and galleries there. Most importantly, I was able to decompress from my [...]

Nearly 10 years ago I began the process of composing a 12 part musical piece representing each month of the year through all 12 keys.  Fresh out of college, I was determined to keep myself motivated to compose now that I no longer had school assignments that I was required to complete. Beginning in 2001, I assigned myself the task of composing a song for each month throughout the year as it unfolded. I would call it The Piano Odyssey.
I made it to April that year when something changed for me.  Up until then, I was heavily focused on trying to “out-do” myself, or finding a new complex structure or clever harmony to use in my next composition.  After all the continual deadlines and vigorous schedule of writing during college, it seemed that I had run out of steam.  I remember wishing that I had called the first four months “seasons” rather than “months.”  For the first time I can recall, I decided that I desired something else [...]

A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to perform at an event known as "Fuente Eterno" held annually at Guadalupe Canyon in Mexico. I was honored to be asked by one of the organizers to perform and so we put a lot of thought into what I should do. I was being given a prime time slot on Saturday night and this was a chance to involve my community and really go for it to create the type of performance I had been dreaming of. I decided I would play through my entire 12 month "Odyssey" that I had been working on for so long and recently finished. On top of that, I wanted to add a new visual dimension to the performance and have dancers interpreting the story of the music.
Since in the time leading up to this trip I was also working on rehearsing and recording the Odyssey album, there was not a lot of time for rehearsing and working on choreography with 8 different dancers. I did the best I could and got the music to the dancers and gave them some guidance with some key music cues, but it was [...]

The first day of 2010 was quite an amazing day for me. I spent my New Year’s Eve celebrating with my wife and a bunch of our good friends at a great party in Downtown LA. We rang in the New Year together while dancing to a killer DJ sets by our friends Jacques the Ripper and FatFinger among others. Afterward, we all went back to a friend’s house and watched the first glimpse of the sun’s rays hit the valley from the view in his hot tub. Shortly after that, I realized that we needed to get home and get some sleep because we had booked a last minute gig for me that afternoon.
After getting some much needed sleep, I drove downtown to go play for a wedding at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Since this was booked at the last minute, I didn’t have any info about what music they wanted played until I got there. Luckily, they had looked at my wedding repertoire list on my website and marked which songs they wanted me to play, so they just gave me the list and I was [...]

THE MESSAGE at Agape was of gratitude and joy on the Eve of Thanksgiving. A reminder that we create our lives from our belief systems both consciously and unconsciously. The vibration of gratitude is where all manifestations are able to arise from. And to live in this vibration daily, moment to moment, especially when challenges arise, is the single most important practice we can do to continue our growth as creative and conscious beings. It is from this space of gratitude for simply being alive - the gift of every breath, realized in every moment - that our greatest visions and desires really begin to manifest! Rewind a bit: Before Michael Beckwith delivered his message of the evening… There I was on stage at the piano in front of around 400 people. I had just finished playing about 25 minutes or so of my own music, as people had gathered in the hall and made it to their chairs in time for the meditation to begin. The Practitioner that was guiding the meditation for the evening [...]