“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
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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
Saturday Jazz
“I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I
The Voice of God
“On the page it looked…nothing. The beginning – simple, almost comic. Just a pulse – bassoons…basset horns – like a rusty squeezebox. And then, suddenly
Sunday Baroque
“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.” ― Edith Sitwell *** Handel – Water Music, HWV 350, Suite No. 3 in G Major: Rigaudon
Dispatches from the Asylum 