Category: What I Listened To

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week I focused on the music of Maurice Ravel. I decided to go old school and pretend that I was listening to a CD. No jumping around from one track to another on Spotify. For this 1998 recording Pierre Boulez conducted The Cleveland Orchestra and the London… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week I focused on the piano music of Edvard Grieg. Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 I. Allegro molto moderato II. Adagio III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato Piano Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7 I. Allegro moderato II. Adante molto III. All Menuetto, ma poco… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week was Stravinsky, Mahler & Cage. (Oh my!) 3 Pieces for String Quartet – Igor Stravinsky Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (‘Songs of a Wayfarer’) – Gustav Mahler / I loved these! Thrilling. Beautiful. Moving. Made me want to learn German so I could follow the lyrics without… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week was a deep dive into solo viola music suggested to me by a fantastic violist friend of mine, Kallie Sugatski. I jotted down notes on the pieces as they came to me. Weariness heals wounds I – Olga Neuwirth / This took a couple of listens… Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. I also went to see Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Met. Read more →

Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. Read more →