musings

Happy birthday to my wonderful wife - she turned 50 today. Time flies, we grow older, wiser or foolisher, learn to live and love again, now that our kids are starting to grow up. Thanks for the many years with you, hope we will be able to celebrate many more birthdays together!

(Yes, gentle reader, I missed a post yesterday - again! As these 100 days draw to a close, I find it more and more difficult to bring up the necessary quiet time to sit down and write and also I don’t have the urge anymore to write something while totally tired and bleary eyed… It is going to be interesting to see, what cadence in blogging I will reach when in 12 days, when the experiment has ended…) ...

Fallout from the Songwriting course was a link to Leonard Bernsteins 1973 Harward Norton Lecture “The unanswered question”. While ironing my shirts today I watched lecture nr 2 about the syntax of music. If you have just a passing interest in music, music theory, linguistics, the universal grammar and Noam Chomsky and you are delighted by listening to a profound, delightful and humorous lecture, presented in the most extraordinary manner, then spend the 96 minutes to watch this and learn about the connection between speech, lyrics and music and see how Mozarts Sonata in G Minor #40 is constructed. ...

Daniela and I have been taking Argentinian Tango lessons for the past two months. We are soon (like this sunday) finished with the introduction course and planning on taking the next step. Part preparation, part training, part fun saw us go to a Milonga with live music tonight. The mix of people was fascinating - young women and men, middle aged couples and a couple of seniors. There was dancing, listening to music and enjoying the spectacular dancers. ...

Tonight at Kammertheater Stok: Philipp Schaufelberg, Pierre Favre and Dietmar Fuhr - a great concert, lots of improvisation and long discussions with Philipp and Dietmar afterwards at the bar. Nothing more to say, than that it was a really enjoyable evening Daniela and I had. Now that the kids are growing up, we start to live a life as a couple again - and that feels just great after 15 years of handling kids. ...

Why do just one course at a time, when you can do two? The correct answer, of course, is that you should always be learning (I gave up on the third concurrent course though…) Concurrently with the Music Production course I took Pat Pattisons “Introduction to Songwriting” class. As you know, I have been semi serious about playing guitar the last year, and been singing quite a bunch of the “standard” songs. ...