Music is a mystery for people who play it, write it, listen to it, and write about it. The only thing I can really do when I try to say something about music is assume.
There are lots of wonderful things about music but maybe best of all is its inexhaustibility--you spend a lifetime listening and playing and along comes Gabriela Lena Frank, or the Catoire String Quartet, or some other work or composer you never even dreamed existed, and the world gets wider. Thanks for this pointer; I'm about to download her "Leyendas" for string quartet.
I am active as a composer, a violist, a violinist, a recorder player, a CD reviewer, and as a teacher. I began my professional musical life as a flutist, and spent a lot of quality time as a baroque flutist, but both of those instruments spend their time tucked away in a drawer, while my violin, viola, and my viola d'amore are often tucked under my chin.
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There are lots of wonderful things about music but maybe best of all is its inexhaustibility--you spend a lifetime listening and playing and along comes Gabriela Lena Frank, or the Catoire String Quartet, or some other work or composer you never even dreamed existed, and the world gets wider. Thanks for this pointer; I'm about to download her "Leyendas" for string quartet.
That's the piece that got me interested in her music. I know you will enjoy it.
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