“Jazz music is America’s past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it.
Category: Music
Sunday Baroque
“A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will
Saturday Ravel – “Bolero”
Ravel had long toyed with the idea of building a composition from a single theme which would grow simply through harmonic and instrumental ingenuity. Boléro’s
Sunday Afternoon Rachmaninoff
“The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not
Sunday Mozart
“Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.” – Tchaikovsky “Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and
Saturday Jazz
“It bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It’s not. It’s feeling.” – Bill Evans *** Bill Evans – “My
Dispatches from the Asylum 