Share: Creativity in Action

A few years ago when I shifted back into the full-time workforce, I came close to dumping my blog contents into the digital trash. One of my cousins convinced me that what I’d written over the years was worth saving for posterity, so I’ve kept paying the annual website subscription even though I had quit adding content.

In 2021, I decided to dust off ye olde blog and move it to a new platform and learned that I’d need to move content manually if I didn’t want to pay a professional to migrate the content using sophisticated technology. At any rate, here we are: January 1, 2022. I have moved blog posts from the beginning and the end of what’s been published, and I will eventually meet myself in the middle. As I’m copying and pasting digital characters from one home to another, I’m finding that many pages to which I had linked (ahem, MySpace pages, for example) no longer exist. In an effort to recreate the original content, I’m finding the same content on different sites (typically YouTube).

This is an overly long explanation for sharing the video that played automatically following my most recent YouTube search to fill in a link from a 2011 blog post. At any rate, I hope you enjoy the video that follows: an almost 14-minute video of Ben Folds extemporaneously composing and performing a piece with the National Symphony Orchestra in June of 2017.

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