Deeann D. Mathews
Writer, composer-arranger, pianist, singer, and eater of kiwifruit with the peel
When a Stubborn Ethereal Bass Brings in Bach, Brahms, Blessings, and Breaks a Few Time Zones for Valentine's Day ...
Like the excellent and detailed professor he was in his mortal life, the Ghost of Musical Greatness Past stayed on top of what he intended to cover in his syllabus at any given time. See you o
A Morning Among the Magnolias (Beethoven, Beethoven/Albert Liu, Brahms, Bach, Bruckner, Wagner, Schubert, Mozart)
A portion of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto has just stayed with me in these weeks ... one evening just the memory of the chord change at the end of the opening theme, into the minor, and then bac
When Tripping Out On a New Composer Overlays an Autumn Memory with Bliss(Zdenek Fibich, Franz de Paula Roser, Strauss, Schubert, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff)
The discovery of Zdenek Fibich's beautiful "Selanka," or Idyll for clarinet and orchestra, took me to another world all on its own ... almost seven minutes of bliss, and easy enough to make seven
To New Horizons, and Making Room for What They May Hold (Scriabin, Justin Heinrich Knecht, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Schubert, Beethoven, Kurt Carr, Mozart, Wolf)
I ended my 44th year with a strange realization ... this requires Scriabin ... a morning light like no other ... It began with two of the last senten
Reflecting on a Coming Nightmare While Living in Hope, Part 4 (Negro Spirituals, Bach, Elsner, Löwe, Schubert, Brahms)
One may as well live in hope, for one never can tell what direction something of a Christmas miracle will come from ... the shepherds on the hills around Bethlehem certainly got surprised... let M