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Think Denk: Vernacular Appeal of Melodic Simplicity and Harmonic Redundancy
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Friday, April 27, 2007. Vernacular Appeal of Melodic Simplicity and Harmonic Redundancy. I know the classical blogosphere will be seriously mourning Rostropovich. However, I personally am finding some redemptive light at the end of the tunnel over at Prof. Heebie McJeebie's Classical Pontifications. From Ms. Hussington's interview:. Why is the piece called Jazz Improvisations if there's no improvisation? Happened. It was in the past. April 27, 2007.
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Think Denk: Day 6: In Which I Lose My Mind
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Day 6: In Which I Lose My Mind. Outside, in the breeze beyond Bach, taxis honked, buses squeaked and squealed, and distant domestic disputes were carried, reverberant and miffy, down invisible Amsterdam Avenue; then, all was quiet. I heard only my keyboard clicking, seemingly of its own volition, googling scraps of my subconscious while I sat helpless in a salsa stupor. Day 6, day 6. Riveted, I read on . Are you KIDDING me?
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Think Denk: Seven Days
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Thursday, May 10, 2007. In the leadup to my 37th birthday, and perhaps to slightly ameliorate the pain of its arrival, now I present seven straight days of blogging on one movement of the 4th Partita of Bach, the Allemande . just to demonstrate, if I haven't already, the extent to which I am capable of obsessing.]. Bach sees Jane run. At the beginning of the Allemande of the 4th Partita, in the left hand, a plain Jane progression:. The surrender to sl...
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Think Denk: April 2007
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Friday, April 27, 2007. Vernacular Appeal of Melodic Simplicity and Harmonic Redundancy. I know the classical blogosphere will be seriously mourning Rostropovich. However, I personally am finding some redemptive light at the end of the tunnel over at Prof. Heebie McJeebie's Classical Pontifications. From Ms. Hussington's interview:. Why is the piece called Jazz Improvisations if there's no improvisation? Happened. It was in the past. Where the Heart Is.
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Think Denk: Day 5: One Plus One
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Monday, May 14, 2007. Day 5: One Plus One. An Allemande has two halves. There is something about this "two-halviness" that I think often gets forgotten, or taken for granted. Studious analysts, we can go through and chart all the alterations, note the composer’s developmental handiwork (here’s x, and here’s y, and they are reordered, etc. etc.) …. 1st half A B C D E F G H I. 2nd half A B C E J! A bit of F D K G H I (L) I. It contests the claim which w...
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Think Denk: Day 3: Love Meets Livestock (G-rated)
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Saturday, May 12, 2007. Day 3: Love Meets Livestock (G-rated). My favorite scene in Don Quixote. Sancho is telling a story to calm himself and his delusional master. It’s about a goatherd, Lope, who’s in love with a shepherdess:. 8230; Torralba, the shepherdess, who was a stout girl, and wild, and a little mannish because she had something of a mustache…. Whereupon, Don Quixote offers his magnificent wisdom:. A million humiliating moments from my life...
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Think Denk: Oh, Newt! ... and, Why Classical Music Is So Boring, Episode 3,423
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Sunday, May 27, 2007. And, Why Classical Music Is So Boring, Episode 3,423. PARENTAL WARNING: this post is extremely unreadable until paragraph 5 or so. It may be occasionally unreadable after that. You can't say I didn't warn you.]. So, Newt Gingrich has written a novel. 8212;Gingrich/Forstchen, Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8. In company with Kafka, it was not too far a stretch to leap from Newt’s sentence to this one:. But I think Finnegans Wake.
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Think Denk: Where the Heart Is
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Thursday, April 26, 2007. Where the Heart Is. He and I had absolutely no communication for six or seven years, though I saw him constantly; now, we are beginning to exchange smiles, and I have no idea what that means, or why it has happened. Some small random tenderness. It makes me feel cheaply good about myself to smile at him, and then I walk on to my destination, usually some heartless corporate chain. At that point, for me, the mathematics of the...
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Think Denk: February 2007
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Monday, February 26, 2007. There is probably a better way of putting this. But who cares? I enjoy Beethoven the most when he doesn't insist so much on being "manly." For example, the “Eroica” Symphony is just manly enough; the last movement of the Fifth Symphony is way too manly, etcetera etcetera …. Beethoven’s anomalies, his offbeat sforzandi. Sometimes I wonder: why, oh why, Ludwig, do you have to mean them SO MUCH? For instance, Op. 96. Be...There...
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Think Denk: Sex and the City
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The glamorous life and thoughts of a concert pianist. Friday, May 04, 2007. Sex and the City. Hey, read your ad and was quite intrigued. Me: 5’7 and a half, sturdy, well-versed in music and related arts, something of a workaholic, but up for fun now and again, great lover of coffee, food, drink, and the pleasures of life… interested? Well, you do sound interesting. But I’m finicky. What’s the catch? Hmm, the catch: I suppose I should tell I have kids. And here's something weird: I wear a wig. As a dead E...
