Tag Archives: Music

To Be Chopin

Posted on 07/23/2023 by chick

As I’ve said before, these days I don’t want to play Chopin as much as I want to be Chopin. But music composition is complicated, and I can’t figure it all out on my own. I tried the book route, … Continue reading →

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Day 110: Three Things About This Week

Posted on 07/01/2020 by chick

I ordered olive oil from Target earlier this week. I figured that they wouldn’t offer to ship it if they couldn’t handle it. I was wrong, and I did not enjoy getting an oil-soaked package full of broken glass delivered … Continue reading →

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Musical Thinking

Posted on 12/30/2019 by chick

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music Ursula K. Le Guin

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Music for Writing

Posted on 04/28/2019 by chick

Listening to Into the Trees by Zoe Keating. Good music to listen to while writing, or anytime

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The Soundtrack to My Life

Posted on 05/10/2018 by chick

I often use music to block out distractions as I write, but it has to be the kind of music that won’t itself be a distraction. That means that it can’t have any words. When writing Morning Pages and blog … Continue reading →

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My Fortune

Posted on 03/23/2018 by chick

My fortune from last night’s fortune cookie: Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

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Special Deliveries

Posted on 06/10/2015 by chick

Two fun things came in the mail today. First, my father’s photo album arrived, and it looks great. I think he’s going to like it. Second, I got some new sheet music. I’ve been trying to learn “Des Abends,” which … Continue reading →

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Piano Lessons

Posted on 06/04/2015 by chick

Just a few days ago Marshall announced, “I want to learn how to play the piano.” This was music to my ears! Being able to play a musical instrument is a blessing that I want to share with both of … Continue reading →

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Snippets

Posted on 01/06/2015 by chick

I’ve been listening to CDs instead of MP3s lately. While I may be going backward technologically, there’s something so nice about a fully-loaded 5-disc CD player. I’m about to shift around the discs, but before I do, I want to … Continue reading →

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Favorite Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Posted on 09/07/2014 by chick

I was once so in love with a piano piece that I tried to learn it by ear. It was a tune called “Sonatine” from one of my favorite albums, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s BTTB. The letters BTTB stand for “Back to … Continue reading →

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