I sat at the piano tonight with my signature Chopin Nocturne and Clair de Lune, with my mute pedal depressed, remembering another time, another piano, another house, and an undeterminable slush of music, a stack of scores, notes, meaningless notes, running across pages and pages of watermarked yellowed pages. I tried hard to hold on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chopin’
tragedy clarity
Posted in encounters, tagged chopin, Debussy, mela v. world, music on 3 May, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
opus 13 – adagio cantabile
Posted in random thoughts, tagged beethoven, chopin, mela v. world, music, rachmaninov, work on 15 May, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s funny how when I was much younger, I had considered it oh such a chore to play this, that it was oh so boring and slow moving and nothing very much happens. I just wanted the storms in the first movement and the action in the third movement thank you very much. [That’s why [...]
maksim and an afternoon in court
Posted in conversations, random thoughts, tagged chopin, performances, work on 20 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m having two relatively slow weeks at work with no hearings and nothing important going on all round, which I suppose is perfect for me to sit out the fatigue from my hellish KL trip over the last weekend (where I was made to carry one Peanut and another in situ and walk for a [...]
new beginnings
Posted in random thoughts, tagged chopin, pregnancy, work on 6 November, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was going to move all of the entries from my old blog over here until I realised the gargantuan effort required moving all the random bits of memories from 2003 to date. I tried to from August 2003. I reached September 2003 and decided, you know, let’s just start all over again, shall we? [...]
