Deeann D. Mathews
Writer, composer-arranger, pianist, singer, and eater of kiwifruit with the peel
Walking As a Gift of Love on Highways from Moonlight Nights to Mountain Valleys and National Parks (Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Schubert, Strauss)
Recently there have been several beautiful clear nights in San Francisco with a waxing moon, and YouTube somehow managed to get all my favorite European operatic basses and bass-centered choir pi
Coming Into Summer with a Whole New View, Part 1 (Beethoven, Löwe, Cocker and Warnes, Rowe and Smith, Wagner, Mozart)
July at last ... for six months I have waited and done only what I was medically advised to do with somehow asymptomatic but critically severe anemia, on the promise that if I did, I would be
"The Eisenblumenkinding," Week 6: Using Steely Resolve to Actually Do What I Came and Went to Do (Negro Spiritual, Bach, Bruckner, Federico Mompou)
I recognize my journey is off the beaten path, not always where the comfortable places to sit are ... gotta climb behind the benches, sometimes by a path that is only highlighted by my fellow flo
"The Eisenblumenkinding," Week 5: Invisibility Comes With the Protection Package, As It Happens (Mercer and Mancini, Berg, Stolz, Strauss)
Shakespeare said it well: "To sleep, perchance to dream" ... and just like Hamlet's father in Hamlet, there are some literary ghosts who just make it their business to come blow your mind and re