Deeann D. Mathews
Writer, composer-arranger, pianist, singer, and eater of kiwifruit with the peel
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...
Water Lilies for Thanksgiving, and Other Wonders (Wolf, Beethoven, Pancho Vladigerov, Löwe, Richard Smallwood)
It had been a while before this week since I had time to get out around the Music Concourse, but I walked that way this week and found out that the fanbase of K.M. Altesrouge had surely been sung
Mid-Autumn Reflections On a Solemn Anniversary (Debussy, Scriabin, Schubert, Samuel Feinberg, Hans Grisch)
At times when others are afraid, or at least participating in the send-up of true horrors that Halloween is for most in my portion of the modern world, I find myself seeking quiet and reflection.
When Walking through a Glowing Green Autumn, Go By the Highest Path Possible, Part 2 (Scriabin, Mendelssohn, Alexandor Tiniakov, William Baines, Alexander Arensky, Schubert)
In retrospect, if you are walking around with a literary ghost in October, and the world is glowing and glittering green in autumn, that actually makes sense ... a late-season algae bloom makes fo