“On the page it looked…nothing. The beginning – simple, almost comic. Just a pulse – bassoons…basset horns – like a rusty squeezebox. And then, suddenly
Category: Music
Sunday Baroque
“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude” ~ Voltaire *** Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 – Sato
Saturday Class
*** “The Very Thought of You” – Nat King Cole
Sunday Baroque
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The
Saturday Jazz
“I refuse to “look up.” Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man’s fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”
Sunday Baroque
“The only sign of superiority that I know is kindness” – attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven *** “What is classical music if not the epitome
Dispatches from the Asylum 