it's 23:45 and so far it has been a rather bad evening. to start the evening off I burned my nut steak so it was not as good as it should have been, then when we were cleaning the dishes after dinner a pipe got a bit loose and the kitchen flooded with water. after cleaning it up my son got a stomach ache and did his number 2 in his good pants and I hate to clean him up and find other clothes for him and now I'm sitting in my living room cause my dogs go crazy if I go outside to check out the fireworks, ...
Over the past week I have repeatedly been listening... with great enthusiasm I might add... to the music of a recent discovery (for me): Charles Koechlin. Koechlin was a French composer (November 27, 1867–December 31, 1950) whose music was quite individual... even eclectic... although he is commonly placed among the French Impressionists. It is with a certain degree of disbelief that I first listened to this composer... and then sought out more and more by him... especially when one considers my ...
It's in the mid-20s outside... snowing and blowing... and I'm sitting in my cozy little library... the tree is decorated to the hilt and all lit up... the candles are burning... and I'm sipping hot chocolate with whipped cream and nibbling on a few chocolate truffles dusted with coffee. And the music?... some sweet Viennese confections: decadent operetta arias, waltzes, and lieder. Perhaps its ...
Over the holidays I had plenty of time to listen to music sitting in the light of the Christmas tree and the glow of the candle-light. One new disc I've been listening to is Three Ragas by Ravi Shankar, recorded in the late 1950s. Ravi Shankar was a phenomenal musician... one of the greatest sitar players within the classical Indian tradition. He became well known, for better or worse, through ...
I found myself reading a book that under normal circumstances I never would have even thought to pick up for a couple of reasons. For one the truth is I just don't read a lot of non-fiction, though I do try and altar that from time to time, which brings the 2nd reason, that it should go without saying that when I do read non-fiction it is about a topic of personal interest to me and usually something history related and the book in question happened to be about a subject of which I would not consider ...
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