I want to free myself from unnecessary baggage I am still carrying around. Today, I am decluttering my music score. Since I have no intention to lead any choir in the future, it is easier to start with conducting related score. All loose copied choral score are gone now, I only keep the music score …
Berg: Mountain Lust: RaptureIt could be Mount Everest or The Alps, but in this blog post, it is my favourite “WeinBERG”, vineyard in English. This was the view today, the trees are in bud. Look at the sunray after the rain! My current situation:In my organ lesson, I am currently working on “Six Little Preludes …
Ai Qing Selected Poems (EN)Translated by Robert DorsettAi Qing Schnee fällt aus Chinas Erde Gedichte (DE)Aus dem Chinesischen übertragen, kommentiert und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Susanne Hornfeck Ai Qing (1910- 1999)Ai Qing is a Chinese poet that I respect, but his writing style is not necessarily my favourite. There are still some of his …
Organist life: I played a tiny concert on last Saturday. It was meaningful to me, because on this organ I have got my first organ lesson. This tiny concert was a fundraising concert for the organ, which I very appreciate. More and more churches have abandoned their organs to cut expenses. It is understandable, but …
From tomorrow on, I will be a happy man.Grooming, chopping and traveling all over the world.From tomorrow on, I will care foodstuff and vegetable.Living in a house towards the sea, with spring blossoms. From tomorrow on, write to each of my dear ones.Telling them of my happiness.What the lightening of happiness has told me.I will …
The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and realized there is no way out. He who dreams is happy; if he does not see a way out, it is important not to wake him up.So I think that if we do not find a way out, what we want …
The 1st day of my self-employed, jobless, idleness, whatever, time will tell. A friend suggests that I should talk more about Chinese Classical Literature. But my books about Chinese Classical Literature is in my home in Malaysia, not here. I would like to have my books with me, I only can think about this once …
Today, I accompanied the very last Easter worship service, also the last worship service as an employed church musician. I will still accompany worship service in the future, but not bound to a congregation. I know that life would not be easier, I might be very naïve, still I hope for considerable degree of autonomy …
My spinet was feeling unwell today, as well as 3 persons that very close to me. I can not be with three of them, at least I can visit my bedridden neighbour. A song will be my prayer for tonight, it says: God, please spare us punishmentsAnd let us sleep peacefullyAnd our sick neighbour too …
“On Wednesday night is a concert, do you have time?”“No, I have worship service to play.”“On Saturday night we plan to cook together, are you in?”“No, I have worship service to play.”“Family call at 9.30 p.m. Malaysia time!”“Sorry I cannot join, I have worship service to play.” After worship service is before another worship service …