Perfect Pairings, Evans’s “Peace Piece” & Sapiro’s Skies

September 28, 2017

Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece” is “an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” LP in …

Playing Piano, a Full-Body Workout for the Brain

September 25, 2017

As I’ve begun learning to replay the piano, I’ve been amazed to realize what a complicated endeavor it is. It …

September 21, 2017

A year and a half ago I blogged about Learning to Play (Again) and wrote this I played piano as …

September 15, 2017

Some favorite pairings in music and art to start your weekend off. I fell in love with this hauntingly sad-sweet …

September 10, 2017

This naming of this painting did not come “like a conversation between two lovers,” as the name of my last …

September 7, 2017

I came across this interview with Marilynne Robinson, who is one of America’s finest living writers, in an old edition …

September 3, 2017

“Warm and rich, rich and warm, which is which?” Like a mantra, these words echo through my mind as I …