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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