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 ‘music’
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 [...]
a nice saturday
Posted in encounters, tagged family life, food, lion, motherhood, music, Peanut, relationships on 23 April, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A dip in the pool with the kids with lots of laughs and a nice stretch for my back. Chicken macaroni for lunch (in homemade chicken soup with fusilli / couscous depending on your age group). A close friend over for D&D. A shared bottle of sparkling white wine. A nice nap on the couch [...]
pockets of insanity
Posted in random thoughts, tagged mela v. world, music, relationships on 21 July, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You know you are watching too many Sesame Street clips when you log onto Facebook, see this status update from an acquaintance: “…and it’s you when I look in the mirror…and it’s you that makes it hard to let go…” And the auto reply generated in your head is: “Saying Wubba Wubba Wubba is the [...]
monster in the mirror
Posted in encounters, tagged mela v. world, music, Peanut on 1 July, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was watching Sesame Street videos on YouTube with Peanut when we came across this, which I thought was particularly funny and true: If your mirror has a monster in it, do not shout This kind of situation does not call for freaking out And do nothing that you would not like to see him [...]
so much more than romance
Posted in random thoughts, tagged music, performances, rachmaninov on 22 June, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he thought, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto – or the last movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second. Men have not found the words for it nor [...]
exasperation and arrogance
Posted in slightly deeper thoughts, tagged mela v. world, music, reading, relationships, work on 25 January, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Various things I have said to various people over the course of today… “My face is not synonymous with [The Firm] or [The Buddha]! I certainly in no way resemble [The Buddha]! Last I recalled, even when heavily pregnant, I was only about half the size of [The Buddha]! Just because you have a matter [...]
a small update
Posted in encounters, random thoughts, tagged mela v. world, music, work on 14 January, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I suddenly have 2 trainees and one temp staff. It’s bizarre how I go from not having any help at all to having a lot of help. Over the last couple of weeks, I have people constantly coming into my room asking me questions and find myself explaining stuff to people I didn’t think I [...]
sylvia rediscovered
Posted in random thoughts, tagged mela v. world, music, work on 4 January, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Other Half and I were clearing our front hall on Sunday afternoon when I rediscovered my forgotten mp3 player, which had remained uncharged since we returned from Russia more than a year ago. The problem I have with the mp3 player is this: I have lost the plug charger and am only able to [...]
