“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 …
“I think it’s very important for artists to be open to contemporary music, because that’s how we can build music history. If we don’t do that, there would not have been Beethoven or Mozart. We have our time and we have to find our music, music that we hope will be sustainable, not just now …
One day, after accompanying a midday prayer in Stuttgart Stiftskirche, I visited a book shop. Inside the book shop, the first floor, next to the postcard stand, among the red couch was the place I bumped into Mr. Faust. To be exact, I met the Goethe’s quote that taken from his tragedy – FAUST. It …
Midnight’s Blogpost Today I took a rest from playing organ and immerse myself in the ocean of books. I did not stick to one book, but travelled from one book to another book for some pages. Sometimes, I enjoyed just to revisit those books I’ve read before. Because of this habit, I use sticky notes …
I have developed a new routine to keep me in a healthier condition emotionally and physically lately. I do whatever need to be done, like having lesson, practice, funerals, running offices, replying emails, organizing and planning, meetings, housework and etc. No matter how busy am I, around 5pm to 6 pm I will go home …
I do not care when foreign office and job center want to define me as jobless. I am self-employed, I am working. Even if I do not have enough work that generating income, I am still practicing, to me, practice is work. Imagine a car company, before the company can sell the cars, the company …
Two years ago, I wrote a blog post with the title “The organ shall sound” and I talked about my most loved organ work genre – Chorale Prelude, organ piece that written based on a hymn. In the post, I said: I experienced “be raised” by practicing organ. I am having this kind of feeling …
I am waiting for the temperature to be bearable to sleep as I am writing this. Conclusion of the day is gratitude. My temporary visa is prolonged until 28.9.2022 because of the foreign office still need time to exam my long term working visa. I think this is a perfect solution for now, in view …
It is one of the most beautiful words in the German language, one of the most beautiful traits of the German essence, a term that, for example, the French would envy us fervently…. Es gehört mit zu den schönsten Worten der deutschen Sprache, zu den schönsten Zügen des deutschen Wesens, ein Begriff, um den uns …