Deeann D. Mathews
Writer, composer-arranger, pianist, singer, and eater of kiwifruit with the peel
When Tripping Out On a New Composer Overlays an Autumn Memory with Bliss(Zdenek Fibich, Franz de Paula Roser, Strauss, Schubert, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff)
The discovery of Zdenek Fibich's beautiful "Selanka," or Idyll for clarinet and orchestra, took me to another world all on its own ... almost seven minutes of bliss, and easy enough to make seven
To New Horizons, and Making Room for What They May Hold (Scriabin, Justin Heinrich Knecht, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Schubert, Beethoven, Kurt Carr, Mozart, Wolf)
I ended my 44th year with a strange realization ... this requires Scriabin ... a morning light like no other ... It began with two of the last senten
Reflecting on a Coming Nightmare While Living in Hope, Part 4 (Negro Spirituals, Bach, Elsner, Löwe, Schubert, Brahms)
One may as well live in hope, for one never can tell what direction something of a Christmas miracle will come from ... the shepherds on the hills around Bethlehem certainly got surprised... let M
Reflecting on a Coming Nightmare While Living in Hope, Part 3 (Mendelssohn, Donnie McClurkin, Beethoven, Bach)
At the end of the day, from nightmares here and coming, there can only be one answer for one called as I am ... here sung by the incomparable contralto Marian Anderson from Mendelssohn's Elijah :
Reflecting on a Coming Nightmare While Living in Hope, Part 1 (Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, Brahms, Berg, Löwe, Bach, Schubert, Schumann, Haydn)
I have always felt about nighttime what Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte makes me feel in her nocturne ... there is nothing to be afraid of in the dark...