“The best musicians know this music isn’t about “schools” at all. Like my father says, “There’s only one school, the school of ‘Can you play’?”
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The Endless Struggle
*** “I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.” – Richard Strauss *** “It’s a funny thing, this is
Sunday Baroque
*** Bach – Sanctus in D major BWV 238 – Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society The unusual thing about the Sanctus in D major,
Saturday Jazz
*** Wynton at Harvard, Chapter 16: The Two-Beat Groove Wynton Marsalis’s six-part Harvard University lecture series, covering a range of topics including jazz, what it
A Bit of Mozart
*** “It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they
Sunday Baroque
*** Handl – Motet Ecce, quomodo moritur iustus – Van Veldhoven | Netherlands Bach Society From the start of the seventeenth century the short motet
Dispatches from the Asylum 