I love music, but I don’t want to use music to feed my vanity; on the contrary, I should starve the vanity in me to death. Furthermore, too much of everything is obsession, and obsession is unhealthy. Also, a life after achievements is an insatiable life. It makes me want for more and left me …
The Four Fictionalized Biography Books by Peter Härtling: đź“š Schumanns SchattenRobert Schumann (1810 – 1856) đź“š Liebste Fenchel! Das Leben der Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn in Etüden und Intermezzi.Fanny Hensel (1805 – 1847) đź“š SchubertFranz Schubert (1797 – 1828) đź“š HölderlinFriedrich Hölderlin (1770 – 1843) I love music and literature, I think, the essence of literature and …
This morning, I woke up to a question, a question asked by my song writer colleague at dining table last week. “Don’t you want to write a song?”“Yes, after the song writing workshops, it’s getting serious now, to write a song.”“I’m very glad to hear this!” I mentioned about the idea of writing song come …
When I realized November has come, alarm bells started to ring in my head. Where did the 10 months go? When I am counting how many weeks to my 3 organ recitals, I am like a cat on a hot tin roof. I guess I have to nail myself to this chair for the whole …
This is what I see when I am travelling to the place where I have my organ lesson. Each time I come back from my lesson, I deeply feel that life is just too short for all the organ pieces I want to learn. I appreciate my every organ lesson to get honest and constructive …
This little fallen leaf that I met in Cologne was carrying a song. A song that I once heard in a beautiful concert in Cologne and the season in the song is autumn. To be precise, it is an autumn dawn, the protagonist is feeling lonely, even lonelier than last year. Suddenly, a leaf has …
Could I complain? Could I be apprehensive?Could I lose faith in you and in myself?No, I already bear your heavenhere within my heart. Im Abendrot (1825) D799Lappe/ Schubert I do not have many words to type for this post. In front of this gorgeous sunset and this splendid song, everything looks dull, including the words. …
“He (Salman Rushdie) sent us a text about love and art.” Case ScaglioneChief Conductor of the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn David Philip Hefti’s Rhapsody for baritone and orchestra with a text by Sir Salman Rushdie is a music composition (25 minutes) commissioned by Wüttermbergische Kammerorchestra (WKO) Heilbronn. On 21.9.2022 was the world premiere in Harmonie Heilbronn …
“Service in life, hope in death. All who follow the queen’s example and inspiration of trust and faith in God can with her say: ‘We will meet again.’”The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby She was a queen, but nowhere in her funeral is glorifying her great deeds. The Bible text, the hymn so well chosen …
When I have to play organ at short notice, I always can play the organ chorale prelude by J.S. Bach, an organ arrangement of the hymn “Who only lets dear God rule” (Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten) BWV 690. This piece is without pedal (Manualiter), so that I can play on almost every …