Read: Wild harmonies

Another book review. After I finished reading counterpoint (last Tuesday evening) I made a bunch of train journeys, which means I could read a lot. So I finished another book already (finished it some days ago, but I had to make some time to translate the review).
I read ‘Wild harmonies’. Subtitle is ‘Life with music [...]

Read: Counterpoint

Counterpoint in the latest novel by the Dutch writer Anna enquist. The structure of this book is based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Golberg Variations. A woman of a certain age, decides to study the variations one more time. Meanwhile she overlooks her life, remembering her daughter and son. Each variations is an episode of her [...]

Cecilia and Chopin

I don’t like Chopin. I don’t like Chopin at all.
Okay, so I didn’t like Chopin. That changed slightly due to the numerous analysises of several Nocturnes, Waltzes, Etudes,… during the harmony lessons at the conservatory. In the end I even ended up buying ‘Impromptu, a movie about Chopin’s life.
A few weeks ago, I was watching [...]

Read: Perdona si te llamo amor

Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (Sorry if I love you), is a novel by the Italian author Federico Moccia. His books are very popular in Italy, some of them have even been adapted for the screen. I bought the Spanish translantion, Perdona si te llamo amor, during my visit to Madrid in July. It took [...]

Early one morning

Lentamente
igual como se escribe un poeme
surge de la nada
el amanecer

Silence

It’s been quiet around here due to my exams at the conservatory. Still 2 to go and then I’ll start blogging again. Until then, even more silence.

Cecilia goes shopping

I think I deserved some shopping, after 5 hours of practical harmony (and doing the dishes). As a reward for my work, I went to the Fnac, which is just behind the corner. My budget was slightly larger than normal, so I permitted myself to buy all those cd’s I’ve wanted to buy for so [...]

Cecilia @ De Slegte Hasselt

I wish I had my birthday more than once a year, so I could get crazy in book shops more often. Like today, I bought:
Hear, listen, play part 2 for clarinet (sheet music)
Thad Carhart: The piano shop (book)
Olivier Pourriol: Mephisto Valse (book)
Margriet de Moor: Kreutzersonate & The Virtuoso (book)
Roberta Guaspari en Larkin Warren: Music of [...]

Cecilia @ PBL

This time I brought home:
Andromeda Romano: The Spanish bow (book)
Michael Nyman: After Extra Time (cd)
Brass of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: works of Willem van Otterloo, Nick Woud, Giovanni Gebriele, Hans Werner Henze, William Schmidt and Derek Bourgeois (cd)
Christian Lindberg: The winter trombone, works of Antonio Vivalde, Darius Milhaud, Lars-Erik Larsson, Georg Philipp Telemann and Roland [...]

The story and the music

How important is it that there’s a story behind the music? I personally think that the music of performers who have a certain image in their mind while playing, has a greater value than the music of those who just play the notes (even if they do play musical lines and dynamics).
Yesterday  a class mate [...]