Category: Editor’s Letter
In Other Words: A Musical Love Tale for Valentine’s Day
A dreamy cheesecake laid the foundation for Friday morning girl talk with a friend. She asked me whether it was difficult for Valentin and I to bridge our backgrounds, [...]
A Dreamer’s Guide to Perfection
What I really need, is a book titled “A Dreamer’s Guide to Perfection”. Unfortunately, not only that such book doesn’t exist, there seems to be a consensus that “there [...]
The Young Kreisler’s Treasure Chest
A notebook I was given as a present, many years ago, contains words other people wrote. It’s an old habit of mine to copy passages from books which I’ve [...]
The Repetition Scale
Imagine the day December 31, 2015, as a solid path you can walk along. What if at the very end of it, right before it turns into January 1, [...]
Richard Wagner, Mary Poppins and Multitasking Machines
As instrumentalists, we face the danger of becoming, well, instruments. Like a pair of monitors – playing the music, but not being truly inside it – thus losing the [...]
Strings Attached
For this week’s post, I chose a selection of tracks featuring gorgeous string arrangements. This isn’t a “best of” list. There are so many great examples, these are just [...]
Ambient 5: Music for a Sea with No Waves
“Music always wins.” On August 13, 2015, I was close to proving this is true. The following was written in the midst of summer. An average of 33 [...]