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Sunday Morning: Amazing Grace
Reblogged from Lead.Learn.Live.: It’s an Amazing Grace feeling-kind-of-morning. Here’s Rodney Britt and friends with 53-second clip, which I wished kept going and going. And from a simple, spiritual, soulful version – - we move to the soul stirring pipes. Amazing … Continue reading
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Lazy Saturdays
Quadro Nuevo – the European answer to the Argentine Tango – is a German acoustic quartet (bass, accordian, guitar, clarinet) that could be classified as world music or jazz, although real jazz aficianados might quibble about that one. It’s the … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic music, Argentine Tango, bass clarinet, Quadro Nuevo
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A light will flood the soul
“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.” ~Simone Weil _______________________________________________________________ Image via Tom Bradshaw 2013
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Tagged inspirational quotes, light, quotes, simone weil, soul
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Piano
Reblogged from Dr Bill Wooten: “Touched by your goodness, I am like that grand piano we found one night on Willoughby that someone had smashed and somehow heaved through an open window. And you might think by this I mean … Continue reading
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Van Cliburn plays Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3 in Moscow in 1958
Reblogged from anakegoodall: Legendary pianist Van Cliburn, the only solo musician of any genre to receive a ticker-tape parade in New York City and the first classical musician to sell a million albums, died Wednesday morning in his Fort Worth, Texas, … Continue reading
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becoming reacquainted
Reblogged from Lead Our Lives: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after … Continue reading
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Your piano is worthless
“Tuning will not help, let me assure you. It is not an antique. You won’t get squat for this. The best you can do is wheel it to the curb and hope some enterprising rube takes it believing that it … Continue reading
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Tagged antique piano, Music Humour, old piano, Piano
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Okay. I’ll share my secret.
None of my students ever get the interval of a minor sixth wrong on the ear test portion of the exams. Ever. Forget the sappy Love Story tune. So not appealing to anyone under the age of 40. Maybe even … Continue reading
Morning coffee. A whole new meaning.
Sambuca: an Italian anise-flavoured, usually colourless, liqueur. It is flavoured with essential oils obtained from anise, star anise, licorice, and other spices… the oils are added to pure alcohol, a concentrated solution of sugar, and other flavouring. It is commonly … Continue reading
Out of season, but awesome. The music; not the running.
Four months ago I ran a Half Marathon. Then winter hit. The running got scaled way back. Two or three times a week; 6-8km maximum; a mostly flat course. Even a quarter marathon would be out of the question now. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Christmas, Half marathon, Marathon, Michael Bublé, Road Running, Running
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The Piano. A symbol of high cultivation.
“Next to books, there is no inanimate thing in the house that can produce so much profitable pleasure as the piano. A library and a piano are symbols of high cultivation. These two spread that nobler banquet where the soul … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Godey's Lady's Book, incantations, inspiration, inspirational quotes, Lessons and Instruction, library, Music, Piano, piano music, society
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