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 …

August 17, 2017

Joep Franssens’ Harmony of the Spheres and the art of Sohan Qadri Both express the sense of peace and power …

August 11, 2017

Sharing some favorite pairings with you on this lovely Friday morning: Artwork – “Evocation of Butterflies” by Odilon Redon Music …

April 17, 2017

The first poem I shared on my new blog five years ago was scribbled in the starlight on a moonless …

May 7, 2016

From “Peter Quince at the Clavier” by Wallace Stevens. Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the …

March 24, 2016

I played piano as a girl and always regretted giving it up. Lately the thought that I may never play …