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New York Night

By Jeremy Denk | Published: April 3, 2005
Although I did not admit as much to my companions, I had one of the best burger experiences of my life tonight: a turkey burger (!) at the Old Town Bar. Its fresh, juicy simplicity, topped with three thick pickle slices, was almost enough of a sensual experience to drown out the surrounding, overwhelming din [...]
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B Minor Fugue

By Jeremy Denk | Published: April 2, 2005
Bach must have known just how I would feel this morning (some 255 years after his death), dragging myself out of bed to practice on a rainy day after wings and beer with my friend last night–as he composed just this exact feeling into the last fugue of the Well-Tempered Clavier: Let us be clear: [...]
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Alistair MacLeod

By Jeremy Denk | Published: April 1, 2005
Richard Goode once told me that his ideal day would consist of reading and practicing, interspersed. This was intimidating; I don’t imagine being able to sustain that “artfulness” (or artyness?), without healthy doses of the sensual, the silly, and the plain idiotic. Thus in between chromatic Bach fugues, I feel it is necessary to watch [...]
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Musical Examples, heavens!

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 31, 2005
bachsarabande Originally uploaded by Jeremy Denk. For those musicians who are reading, who want to “follow along” with the last post… The chromatic tenor line in question begins in the geographical middle of the page, continues for two measures … savvy readers and analysts will note that it is a continuation/response to a chromatic descending [...]
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