Tagged With: Bach
The Sweet Ouch
Home to find the Shire bathed in sunlight and still buried in snow. Three days home and yet another winter storm howls and screams at my north windows. It’s mid-march. I don’t feel in any way inclined to take pictures of this weather. But oh my studio is warm warm. Full of echoes left from […]
Every Year, December 1
Every year has different elements & configurations, but as of December first each year I look at my calendar in wonder and love my job all over again. Who gets to do this? Musicians. shorthand: December 8, 12, 13, 14; Dec 16, 18, Dec 21, Dec 22 (I believe that’s 8 for 19 days? 2 […]
Wachet Auf,
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring, Sheep May Safely Graze, Air in G, all the Brandenbergs, Arioso – playing these pieces is like eating home-made split-pea soup on the third day of chilly rain, book in hand, and a woodfire toasting your damp toes. Bach is ‘home’ to so many of us – harmonious, reassuring, refined, […]