Monthly Archives: August 2015
Patience But
I have been accepted into the Saturday Chamber Music workshop in Naperville despite my late registration, but I still have no music. The coordinator e-mailed me late last night and indicated she would send me music this morning. I sure hope so! I really need to get going on it. Serendipitously, Teacher moved today’s lesson […]
Chamber of One?
Due to my back pain extravaganza, I registered quite late for the chamber music festival I mentioned a while back. I missed the deadline, and while Teacher said that would probably be OK (she checked with the organizers) the main practical effect is that I have not had the same amount of time with the […]
Roman Totenberg’s Stradivarius Recovered
It’s rare to get away with stealing a Stradivarius, but that’s exactly what happened with Roman Totenberg’s 1734 Ames Stradivarius in 1980 – the thief, a currently unnamed and deceased man suspected by Totenberg all along until the musician’s death, left the instrument to a family member who had it appraised back in June only […]
Back at It
I have been so fortunate for most of my life as far as health goes – occasionally my back has given me fits over the years, but it’s been relatively minor, causing minimal impact on my day to day. As I wrote in my last post, however, minimal is not how I would describe the […]
Ryan Libel 