Monthly Archives: August 2018
Beethoven: Touching Enlightenment and the Work
I’m reading a big Beethoven biography, which is providing great context for his work. Significantly, Beethoven was born and raised in Bonn, a place where enlightenment thinking took root and blossomed. Beethoven’s intellectual milieu holds a great interest to me, since his music seems to me to tap into something universal about humanity. The biographer, […]
Breaking 100
Perpetual Motions are all about speed. My current Perpetual Motion, the second piece with this title that I’ve played, is the second to last piece in Suzuki Book 4. The first was in Book 1, a very basic piece that I haven’t gone back to in a while. My focus of the moment is bringing […]
Perpetual Motion
On Tuesday, Teacher and I worked through the rest of my newest song, Perpetual Motion. This timeline for getting through a new piece is the shortest I’ve managed in a long time, and certainly the quickest in all of Book Four. That’s not to say the piece is without complexity – it includes fourth position, […]
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