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Inspiration
“Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.” – Duchess Prazlin Cited at QuotationsBook
I do not choose my listeners
“I do not choose my listeners. What I mean is, I never write for my listeners. I think about my …
Growth by dreams
“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.” – Woodrow Wilson, President of USA 1913-1921 Source: QuotationsBook
Freedom for music
“In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side – there where …
James Levine on Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin
Conductor James Levine on Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin: Eugene Onegin is very special, an incredibly successful piece; there is nothing …
Look under your feet
The lesson which life constantly repeats is to ‘look under your feet.’You are always nearer to the divine and the …
Reich on modernism and tonality
American composer Steve Reich on Schoenberg and his compositional style: Schönberg is the beginning of the death of German Romanticism. …
Who needs four strings anyway?
In his work Le Streghe (The Witches), the virtuoso violinist Paganini would use scissors to reduce the number of strings …
Prokofiev is evicted
Sergey Prokofiev was once evicted from his apartment for playing the same chord 218 times. A tally was kept by …
Personality
“Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.” – Charles M. Schwab, The Ten Commandments of Success
Part of the bigger picture
Leopold Stokowski conducted the American premier of Berg’s opera Wozzeck in 1930 (a joint effort of The Philadelphia Orchestra, the …
Patience
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains — Dutch proverb Henry Bonn. A polyglot of foreign proverbs. …
The best of every man
“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man …
Creativity
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” — Mary Lou Cook, American community …
Review of Pablo Casals
A Review written in El Alcance of the cellist Pablo Cassals: His bow, sometimes sweet as a voice from heaven, …

Abstraction X

Abstraction XIII

Abstraction XIV

Abstraction XVII

Abstraction XVIII

Big Business

Easy Street

I’ll Softly Sigh

Lullaby

Meditation II

Ode I

Ode II

One Week

Sleepy Bear

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

The Adventurer

The Battle of the Somme

The Rink

By Greg