Danny Lux is a multiple Emmy nominated television and film composer. His TV series' credits include the theme music for Sliders, Million Dollar Mysteries, Crisis Center, Profiler and Boston Legal. He’s contributed music to Grey’s Anatomy, Hacks, Ally McBeal, NYPD Blue, The Good Wife and others. His movie credits include Halloween: Resurrection and Stolen Summer. In total he’s scored over 2,300 episodes from dramas to comedies to films.

My featured song is “Studio One”. It's from the album Play by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.

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"MA PETITE FLEUR STRING QUARTET

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Benjamin Kruithof is a multiple prize winning Luxembourg-born cellist. In 2025 he won the Young Artist of the Year award. He’s given recitals all over Europe including Cologne, Amsterdam, Vienna, Budapest, London and Baden-Baden. As a soloist, recent highlights include performances with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, Liechtenstein Symphony and the East-West Chamber Orchestra. In recital, he has performed at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Kings Place in London and the Salle Cortot in Paris. His Chamber music projects include an extensive tour of the Netherlands with Noa Wildschut.

My featured song is the new re-mixed, re-mastered version of “Ma Petite Fleur String Quartet”, in Dolby Atmos released on St7dio - Classical. All links.

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Tess Remy-Schumacher is is a Grammy® nominated cellist and producer. She’s won a whole bunch of awards including the World Entertainment Award for “Best Classical Album”, first Prize at the International Carlo-Zecchi Competition in Rome, and multiple medals at the Global Music Awards. As a concert soloist, she has recorded at Abbey Road Studios as part of the Six String Symphony with the London Symphony and recorded over 20 albums. She’s performed in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the U.S., including at Wigmore Hall in London, Jubilee Hall in Singapore, and the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. As an educator she is a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma.

My featured song is “The Buzz”, one of my recent singles. Spotify link.

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Pille-Rite Rei is an Estonian jazz musician, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter known for her deep connection to Brazilian and Latin-infused jazz. She plays Estonian bossa nova! Her work spans multiple albums and singles, blending Nordic jazz melodies with acoustic and bossa nova rhythms. She honed her vocal skills in Sweden and later won a musical award in Denmark. She then went to Brazil and collaborated there. Now she’s back based in Denmark.

My featured song is “The Gift”, one of my recent singles. Spotify link.

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This episode announces the release of the new re-mixed and re-mastered “Ma Petite Fleur String Quartet”.

The new recording has been released on St7dio - Classical, the boutique classical label owned by multiple Grammy® winner Kitt Wakeley and which is run by Allison Charney. Allison is a Grammy® nominated opera singer in her own right, and a recent guest on the podcast.

Here’s the back story.

In 2012 I wrote and recorded a jazz ballad that I called “Ma Petite Fleur” (my little flower). My ballad was an instrumental love song that I wrote for my wife. In 2025 I got the idea to transform this song into a classical string quartet piece. The new work was arranged by David Shenton and performed by a superstar quartet consisting of Katie Thomas on violin 1, Erica Dicker on violin 2, JJ Johnson on viola, and Dave Eggar on cello. The recording was praised by a host of world class classical artists, and it quickly accumulated nearly a half million views on YouTube.

In June 2026 I was introduced to Allison Charney as a guest on the podcast. Allison heard my string quartet piece and said she wanted to re-release it on her label, St7dio - Classical, in a new, re-mixed and re-mastered form including in Dolby Atmos, the latest audio technology. 

The new version of “Ma Petite Fleur String Quartet” has just been released by St7dio - Classical. I invite you all to download and/or stream it.

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I believe that creativity has no expiration date. But there is another side to the story. Sometimes we watch an artist who we have loved for decades slowly fade before our eyes.

Recently I saw a ‘60s era superstar in concert. He will remain nameless for these purposes.

In my opinion, he was one of the greatest artists of the rock era. His songwriting, his guitar playing, his singing - all masterful.

Which is why seeing him recently was such a complicated experience for me.

He’s now in his eighties. Like all of us, he has aged. His voice has changed. His physical presence has changed. The effortless brilliance of youth has inevitably given way to something quieter and more fragile.

And perhaps what I found myself mourning was not so much him, but the realization that time eventually catches up to all of us.

The concert raised two questions for me. The first concerns the relationship between artists and audiences.

When audiences attend a concert by an artist whose career spans 60+ years, what are they hoping to hear? It’s pretty clear to me that the fans come to reconnect with the hits - the songs that became part of their lives. The songs attached to first loves, first apartments, marriages, children, friendships, and memories. Those songs belong not only to the artist but, in a real sense, to the audience as well.

So when an older artist loads new material and deep cuts into their set list, the audience is disappointed. In fact, Timothy B. Schmit, a member of the Eagles, said to me when I interviewed him on this show that the Eagles will never record a new album. Why? Because all that the fans want to hear are the hits.

That doesn’t mean that artists should stop creating new work. Far from it. I admire older artists who continue to write and record new music well into their eighties.

But there is a balance. Both Paul McCartney and James Taylor, for example, understand that in concert they must play the 25 or so songs that their fans want to hear. Then they can sprinkle in a few new ones.

The second question is even harder. How does an artist know when it is time to stop? Athletes face this question. Actors face this question. Musicians face it too.

There comes a point when talent remains but some of the tools that once expressed that talent begin to diminish. Voices change. Range disappears. Energy fades. The audience notices. The artist notices. And everyone involved understands what is happening, even if no one says it aloud.

This is not criticism. It is simply life. 

Perhaps that is why performances by older artists affect us so deeply. We are not simply watching our heroes age. We are confronting our own aging as well. The fading star becomes a mirror.

And maybe that is why audiences continue to give them standing ovations. Partly out of admiration. Partly out of gratitude. And partly because we understand that we are not merely applauding a performance. We are applauding a lifetime of artistry, creativity, and the memories these artists gave us along the way.

In the end, perhaps that is enough. Perhaps that is more than enough.

This is Robert Miller with Follow Your Dream.

Adrian Galante is an Australian-born jazz multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer who plays the piano and the clarinet. His debut album, “Introducing Adrian Galante”, was released last year and features pianist Tamir Hendelman and drummer Joe LaBarbera, both of whom have been guests on this podcast.

My featured song is “Mi Cachimber”, one of my recent singles. Spotify link.

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Mitch Marcus is a director and screenwriter for movies and television. He started out working on film crews on movies like 'Stand By Me" and "Field of Dreams".  In 1995, his film “A Boy Called Hate", about the youth culture of guns, received a prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.  He’s worked as a director for hire on several feature length movies.  He’s filmed two feature length documentaries. In television, he produced and directed non-fiction television for A&E, History, Travel, Discovery, Sundance and others - most recently Executive Producing the series, "The Unexplained with William Shatner”. He recently released a micro-budget feature called "I Don't Love You Anymore”.

My featured song is “Hollywood”, from the album The PGS Experience by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.

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Jhoely Garay is a Mexican-born jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger and the leader of the Jhoely Garay Jazz Orchestra. She combines classic and contemporary jazz with Latin rhythms. And like me, she likes to write message songs about subjects like the climate, and also about untold or hidden histories left out of official narratives. She’s become an important part of the jazz scene in New York and Mexico. She’s performed at major venues including Carnegie Hall, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and The MET Museum. And she won five Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation awards.

My featured song is “Take Me”, from the album East Side Sessions by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.

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Jason SweetTooth Williams is a singer, an actor and a writer. He’s performed in cabaret, on TV, in films and on Broadway. He was in the Broadway musical “Be More Chill”, and regionally and Off Broadway in “Freaky Friday”, “Benny and Joon”, “Bloodsong of Love”, “The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S Thompson Musical” and “Once Upon a Mattress”. And he’s an original member of Joe Iconis and Family. On screen he appeared in “WeCrashed” and in episodes of “Only Murders in the Building”, “BULL”, “FBI”, “The Marvelous Mrs Masiel” and “American Horror Stories”. 

My featured song is “The Buzz”, my latest single. Spotify link.

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