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Memo Pads?

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 31, 2005
I must feel some extreme subconscious need to “explain Falstaff,” because this morning I awoke from a vivid dream where I was doing just that. At an upright piano, in a beautifully furnished room (seemingly drawn from the set of the WB show Charmed), I was explaining to an unknown woman the beauties of Verdi’s [...]
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Bach Continued

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 30, 2005
Practicing, practicing, practicing: my hummus and pita is strangely unsatisfying (if necessary) after 6 hours of Bach. What is amazing is how IDIOTIC the “old ways” of playing something seem (and by old I mean six months ago): how incredibly self-critical you become. And the idiocy is usually inattention… and so I force myself, bit [...]
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Bach

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 29, 2005
As my friend put it, it is “All Bach All The Time” in my place these days, which is wonderful but overwhelming. One would guess that a lot of the work would be very cerebral: fingerings, sorting-out, mental gymnastics. That is true, and it takes a lot of patience– but much of the work for [...]
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More Falstaff

By Jeremy Denk | Published: March 28, 2005
The following thoughts on Falstaff I find, today, scrawled into the NotePad of my Palm: “The idea of comedy where the serious character is the one you DON’T care about. Depth of character for the fool. The most ironic utterances are sometimes the most beautiful.” Irony and beauty are not often coupled; fools are often [...]
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