The Happiness Passport (EN)Atlas of Happiness (DE) Author: Megan HayesIllustration: Yelena BryksenkovaBook bought from a local bookstore What is happiness? This book brings us to different places of the world and introduces us the definition of “happiness” from each culture. In total, 50 secrets of happiness could be found here. I speak Chinese and German …
Year: 2022
You can learn quite a lot from singers, but do not believe all that they say.Von Sängern und Sängerinnen lässt sich Manches lernen, doch glaube ihnen auch nicht Alles! Advice to Young Musicians – Robert Schumann Hmmm… the second half of this advice from Schumann is a bit hard to understand. Let’s see what did …
Book : Jamila (EN) Dshamilja (DE) UnionsverlagAuthor: Tschingis AitmatowBook borrowed from a friend This book is simply beautiful. May be it’s because I love music, the chapter that describes Daniyar’s singing in one August night took my soul away. A story about friendship between Jamila, Daniyar and Seit in Kyrgzstan during World War II. They …
I always like the stories of Pettson and Findus. In this book “Our Most Beautiful Adventure” is a collection of their 5 stories (spoiler: a recipe of pancake cake is included)! Actually the adventures they had was only around Pettson’s farm, not further. Anyway, alone by reading the book title, it makes me feel like …
A lot of interesting things have happened since my last post, very mixed feeling, mostly too excited. I pick three to talk about: Schubert, Spinet, Reels. Schubert Children Sound Book I am that kind of person, that luck usually does not favour me. That means, I never won a lucky draw (as far as I …
Only by reading the title of this post, you can diagnose how chaotic am I. For what is the relationship between knitting and Clavichord? That is why I need to write to clear my mind. Summer Semester. The organ class was satisfying and my programme for Summer Semester is: Felix Mendelssohn – The Lord’s Prayer …
I feel like I am an airplane that want to take off into 2022, but still moving on the runway. The first week of 2022 I was on leave, a short trip here and there and visiting friends. Also, I slept and read excessively (heaven). The second week of 2022 I was back to work. …
I really like to walk in the vineyard, and often jokingly say to my friends that my backyard is a vineyard. The vintner was very hard working, he already start to prune the branches, just compare the unpruned grapevines at the left side, and the pruned vines at the right side. Every good vintner know …
I guess you would think that, the Christmas time is over now. In most of the houses in Germany, the beautiful decorated Christmas tree been taken out on 6th of January. In Asian countries, the Chinese lunar new year decoration already replaced the Christmas decoration. However, according to the old church tradition, Christmas time end …
As I am writing this blog post, I supposed to be in Bristol (UK) playing an organ recital. Apparently, the recital is cancelled due to the amendment of travel rules announced shortly before Christmas 2021. It is a pity, because both sides, the musicians/ organisers in UK and me have tried our best to make …