Monthly Archives: May 2005

Call of the Wild

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 29, 2005
“Fie on Charleston for clogging your blogging.” So writes reader Erin, and though Charleston deserves no fie, I am grateful there are readers to know when there are no posts. I have returned from two concerts (11 am, 1 pm) where I played that joyful, bounding, cloudless Schumann work Faschingsschwank aus Wien. [...]
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Morning

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 28, 2005
It is 8:33 AM. I have been awake for 33 minutes and have to play a concert in slightly less than 2 1/2 hours. I am on my second cup of coffee and have to judge how much will keep me alert until concert time, without sending me into a mania. [...]
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Irreconcilables

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 22, 2005
Yesterday morning I awoke in a shuttered suite, bathed in pastels, sunshine leaking through the cracks, and when I flung open the curtains (averting my bleary eyes) I saw pristine white boats preparing for a day of fishing in a calm ocean. And I finally put my head back down again in my darkened [...]
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Mythologies

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 18, 2005
Yesterday morning it was on ABC News, and today it hits the New York Times: mystery “Piano Man” is now a big-time star, complete with an alluring photograph, where he clutches his music and the sun glints through his hair. (Kudos to Dean Olsher for first alerting me to this breaking news; he [...]
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