Deeann D. Mathews
Writer, composer-arranger, pianist, singer, and eater of kiwifruit with the peel
Climbing to the End of Summer While Swinging for the Fences (Rachmaninoff, Synister and Jamie Robinson, Löwe))
The Ghost of Musical Greatness put me on notice that he knew what was going on last week. I can no more predict the future than you can, but I am taller and older than you, and I look now from a
Ever Upward, with Some Careful Window Shopping Along the Way (Charles Koechlin, William Baines, Gounod, Bach, Liszt)
Some time ago, I wrote about my love of Shepard Tones here in Q-Inspired (you probably remember that, @mipiano!) but they can have strange effects on other people in their pure form. Nevertheless,
Living and Walking Upward through Beautifully Impermanent Spaces (Debussy, Hugo Wolf, Civilla Martin and Charles Gabriel, Schubert, Irving Berlin)
I never could get into the idea that Debussy's "Clair de Lune" was about a romantic scene, and at last YouTube served me up a pianist who read the poem Debussy read that inspired the music ... thi
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
