Jorja Fleezanis with Michael Steinberg at the 2009 Synphony Ball, for which Ball Chair Susan Campbell chose Jorja as Honorary Chair.
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That music is a profession and a business cannot be written out of the world order, but let us remember in the midst of the swirl that it is also the subject of a contract full of words like attention, listening, meditation, reflection, remembrance, wit, joy, torment, delight, heart, brain, spirit. Yes, the elevation of the spirit is the ultimate reward, the one that comes after we have learned to take that nourishment of the senses, the brain, and the heart …
Michael Steinberg
Excerpt from For the Love of Music: Invitations to Listening (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) Michael Steinberg and Larry Rothe