By the skin of my teeth, with 8% battery left on my computer, I have made a video to finish an application just in time for submission tomorrow. This once again gives weight to the idea that a task will expand to fill the available space. Or in other words, it will get finished by
My musical lineage has some rather distinguished names in it and makes me feel I'm carrying a certain responsibility to keep playing. If I trace back the teachers, it arrives with J.S. Bach. He taught his son, C.P.E. Bach, who taught Haydn. Haydn taught Beethoven, who in turn taught Czerny. He taught Parratt who taught
Bach and jazz, I hear you say, what do they have in common? Well, J.S. Bach was the master improviser and innovator when it came to music. Had been around in the 20th century he surely would have been a jazz star, doing all the amazing harmonic and melodic things that make him a genius,
It tickles my fancy when I play a Sarabande that at one stage it was illegal. Bach's Sarabande - the one I play is part of the fifth French suite - is a beautiful, restrained piece of baroque keyboard music. It doesn't get much more refined that this in the classical musical world. However ...
Beautiful, interesting and soothing. J.S.Bach wrote incredible music (breaking all the rules of harmony and counterpoint), and his Cello Suites - for solo cello - burrow their way into your heart and mind. Perfect listening when you're sad, when you're happy, in fact, when you're feeling anything or nothing at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQLXRTl3Z0