I am in the chapter 5 of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. The privileged, well-educated and moral-degraded college kids are getting more horrible page by page. I have only read 1/3 of the book, it is still too early to say anything definitive about the book. One thing for sure, Donna Tartt is an extraordinary …
I travelled and spent beautiful time with my little friend last week. Since I gave her Schubert Sound Book last year, she loves it so much that her parents got her Mozart and Bach. So Schubert, Bach and Mozart belong to her very first vocabulary next to papa and mama. The Sound Book series of …
Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to Fra-anz (ritardando and take a deep breath)Happy birthday to you! Today is Franz Schuberts birthday (31.1.1797) and a few days ago was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts birthday (27.1.1756). The two very short and brilliant lives, like comets. Schubert died at the age of 31, Mozart died at …
The Four Fictionalized Biography Books by Peter Hrtling: 📚 Schumanns SchattenRobert Schumann (1810 1856) 📚 Liebste Fenchel! Das Leben der Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn in Etden und Intermezzi.Fanny Hensel (1805 1847) 📚 SchubertFranz Schubert (1797 1828) 📚 HlderlinFriedrich Hlderlin (1770 1843) I love music and literature, I think, the essence of literature and …
The flowering knows no end Now all must change.Das Blhen will nicht enden. Nun muss sich Alles, Alles wenden. Faith in Spring// FrhlingsglaubeJohann Ludwig Uhland I was away for a couple of days. When I came home, I discovered many new baby flowers have come out. Immediately, Schuberts song Faith in Spring played in …
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. …
In this essay “Shuo Mu Ye” , 林庚 Lin Geng（1910 – 2006）examines the names of the leaf in Chinese classical poetry. “Mu” 木 and “Ye”叶 both mean leaf, but in the poetic realm, the subtle differences between the two are individually and exclusively termed. The earliest works for which the distinction between the two can …
Today is a successful day in decluttering music score. I’ve found some new owners for my scores. Instead of letting the important composer Max Reger’s scores collecting dusk at my place, an organist friend welcome them with open arm. Please do not get me wrong, I enjoy listening to his organ composition, especially his – …
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 …
Sunday afternoon, I had coffee and cake with my neighbour in her garden. On the table, there was a garden calendar. A calendar to give you garden tips every day, other than that, poetry and folk wisdoms related to garden. Today, the calendar mention about the change from winter time to summer time. As I …