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Art is meant to be uplifting
“Art,” announces Pat Buchanan to Charlie Rose, “is meant to be uplifting.” What a relief! After all these years I’d …
A man’s money
“Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything is always a portrait of …
Go for long walks
Rachmaninoff once urged Horowitz to go for long walks. “If you don’t walk, your fingers will not run.” Abram Chasins, …
White Christmas
Accounts vary on where Irving Berlin wrote “White Christmas”. Berlin himself even recall differing circumstances on when it was penned. …
The value of preparation
“Be ready when opportunity comes…. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.” — Roy D. Chapin Jnr., Chariman …
Understanding the world
“If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.” …
Nick Cave on the creative process
Worry less about what you make — that will mostly look after itself, and is to some extent beyond your …
Ganymed (Schubert)
Title: Ganymed (Op. 19, No. 3)Composer: Franz SchubertArranger: Greg SmithInstrumentation: Cello and pianoProduct medium: PDF score and part Sample:
Stanford on Tchaikovsky
“Tchaikovsky reminded me, in more ways than one, of his countryman Tourgéniew, whom I once met at Madame Viardot’s. He …
Relationship with the muse
I need time to be idle in order to experience and romance my muse, Music, my lifelong partner. In some …
Einstein as a musician
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my …
A little help with a fugue
Rachmaninoff had a little help with a fugue exam at the Moscow Conservatory in 1891: By mistake the examinations of …
Schubert’s progress
Schubert’s report card in in the Music of the Court Chapel Choir-Boys in the I. & R. Seminary, 1st term, …
Inner-most feelings can be expressed in music
Taneyev was critical of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. Tchaikovsky’s response ended with: “I can see you laughing as you read all …
Beethoven conducting
On 5 April 1803 Beethoven conducted an concert of his own works: the First and Second Symphonies; The Third Piano …

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