Last year was a year of Camille Saint Saens and Franz Schubert for me. I have a much greater appreciation of their music today than I did a year ago. I’ve written a lot about Schubert (read it here). Today ..
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Last year was a year of Camille Saint Saens and Franz Schubert for me. I have a much greater appreciation of their music today than I did a year ago. I’ve written a lot about Schubert (read it here). Today ..
Lately I have found myself completely hooked on Franz Schubert (of all addictions, not the worst one to have). I’ve shared with you his: Impromptus No. 3 Death and the Maiden Fantasia and his (finished) Symphony ..
“The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention”. – Franz Schubert A few weeks ago my father, my daughter Hannah, and I went to the Boulder ..
Today I wanted to share Fantasie in F Minor by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. Schubert lived a very short life: when he was 25 he contracted syphilis, and at the time syphilis was a treacherous, painful death ..
Today I wanted to share with you Tchaikovsky’s Symphony Number 6, called “Pathetique” (which translates from Russian as “passionate”). It was Tchaikovsky’s last symphony. He conducted its premier just ..
In today’s musical note I want to share with you Danse Macabre (“Dance of Death”) by French composer Camille Saint-Saens. In this symphonic poem (music that literally tells a story) Death summons the dead ..
Lately I’ve been pondering on this question. At first, it was a subconscious decision. Somewhat by inertia, I was following in the footsteps of my parents. That’s what they did, and that’s what I’m supposed ..
I watched Life is Beautiful with my wife and older kids (15-year-old Jonah and 10-year-old Hannah). Two-year-old Mia Sarah hung around, too, but didn’t really watch it. Life is Beautiful is an Oscar-winning ..
Today I wanted to share with you a short solo piano piece by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, called “Liebestraum No. 3” (“Dream of Love”). I almost (almost) want to issue a personal guarantee that this ..
“Think of a man whose health can never be restored, and who from sheer despair makes matters worse instead of better. Think, I say, of a man whose brightest hopes have come to nothing, to whom love and friendship ..