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By: Spontaneous Memory: The Alcotts « The Flat in Half-Moon Street, W.

Spontaneous Memory: The Alcotts « The Flat in Half-Moon Street, W. — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:16:35 +0000

[...] updated, but when it is, insightful. A long time ago there was his post on the Ives’s Concord Sonata, which is deeply beautiful and moving in all the right ways–right before the big performance [...]

By: Amfion » Chopin vai Schubert?

Amfion » Chopin vai Schubert? — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:48:49 +0000

[...] Denkin aiemmista tuotoksista kannattaa lukea myös Schubertin suurta B-duuri- tai Charles Ivesin Concord-sonaattia koskevat [...]

By: Fixed Gear

Fixed Gear — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:17:51 +0000

You shoulda’ dumped the yogurt on her head!

By: JMH

JMH — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:19:09 +0000

Thank you for posting the musical snippets… I enjoy your writing and your talent for analogy but my lack of training makes it difficult to follow your musical themes.

By: Anne L. Rounds

Anne L. Rounds — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:39:42 +0000

I am so moved by thinking about you almost crying. As you unflinchingly and beautifully write this narrative of performance, I wish I could have been there with you.

By: Charles Shere

Charles Shere — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:38:44 +0000

This was a fine post on Ives; I’m grateful to Renewable Music for pointing it out to me. It sends me back to a book unread for decades, Ermest Mew,am
s The Unconscious Beethoven, a book worth looking at. I like the idea of B**th*v*n blurring all that classical-style stuff late in his life; Op. 126 is a key to much of his music…

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:59:58 +0000

By the way… Nice sidebar on “memorisation” in the current issue of “Pianist”! Alas, no mention of Rice Krispie Treats or yogurt.

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:13:06 +0000

I was at that Kroger on a Saturday evening a few weeks ago, and as I wheeled by the alcohol aisle there were some late teen-somethings fondling the bottles of Boone’s and Mike’s Hard Lemonade. I thought about buying them what they wanted, then reminded myself that it was illegal to do so, and flashed back to college when buying and drinking even the worst-tasting alcohol meant getting away with something, that an evening in Colorado Springs might yet hold some excitement. I was a little jealous that alcohol-buying and
other only-in-grownupland stuff was often more mundane than fun now, and felt a little older.

The recording I have of the third movement of the Hammerklavier renders it dull, but your flavor of it last Thursday evening took me somewhere deep in my psyche, and I’m still working through it all. And shouldn’t risotto fit somewhere in your flavoring, in addition to coffee?

Also: why doesn’t the School of Music put its world-famous alumni in first class on airplanes? There should be protests.

By: Jeremy Denk

Jeremy Denk — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:37:55 +0000

oh, brent, how could you? expresso with an x?

By: brent

brent — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:26:57 +0000

Yes, coffee it is, generally speaking. But specifically, what else but Expresso!