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Summer is full of nature, and it’s the time we usually get out into it, and let our senses partake of the beauty, inhale smells, and feel warm breezes on our skin. Then there is the plucked flowers perspective. Death is imminent, but the rose lives on as an unworldly...
It’s really summer now. When August first rolls around, the end of summer is in sight. But, we still have a delicious month left before the kids (and many of the grown ups) go back to school, and back to their quotidian routines. But since we have a month, this week...
It's been a Bach week, but I'm departing from my faith-based musical life for today. I'm feeling melancholy since spring is finally here. The Norwegians, after months of non-stop darkness and no sunshine, view the first day of spring as the saddest day of the year,...
I've been drawn closer and closer to Bach lately. Maybe he's the only antidote I have to our perilous and uncertain times. Yesterday was "Bist Du bei Mir". And the day before "Schlummert Ein". To follow, I was drawn to the Goldberg Variations, since it starts with an...
Today's Song of the Day features one of my all-time favorites, again by J.S.Bach. I've been re-reading John Eliot Gardiner's Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven with much pleasure. Do yourself a favor and read it. This is from Anna Magdalena's Notebook—things she...
J.S. Bach is still the guiding light for most of us who have studied and practice classical music. He created a kind of purity that I think married humanity with the loftiest concept of God. I personally find Bach is enough, without religion. And when Lorraine Hunt...