Troels - Walk in Beauty

Why?

Wednesday, 25. November 2009, 06:58:47

So many questions begin with that word. Small, banal ones and big, existential ones.

No song

Monday, 23. November 2009, 06:50:05

music, literature

A friend of mine is a singer-songwriter at amateur level and has a son who is a rather successful producer in the pop industry. This friend found out that I do a bit of writing, and he asked me if I could write a song text for him.

I had to decline, but his request brought back the memory from the endless list of might-have-beens in my life.

Survivor?

Thursday, 19. November 2009, 16:01:22

or

Oh the (divine) irony

Not me

Tuesday, 17. November 2009, 15:48:47

I do not in general define myself in negative terms, but on some points it may actually be relevant to do so. Some of them, not necessarily among the most important ones, are listed here. Their order is alphabetical and not intended to mean anything more than that.

"Who are you, really?"

Thursday, 12. November 2009, 06:45:26

psychology

The other day I received, through a mutual friend, a greeting from the only person that I remember ever having asked the question in this completely generic form.

Funnily, I do not know if he was really interested in getting to know the truth.

Quality music in the White House?

Tuesday, 6. October 2009, 10:08:42

music

In the early weeks of the Obama presidency I read that, among other plans, Barack and Michelle Obama intended to arrange concerts with jazz and chamber music in the residence of the US president. I thought that this sounded great, and I wrote some suggestions. I left the community for which it was originally intended, and it has since been buried in my hard disk, until I decided to publish it here.

Fading into silence

Sunday, 27. September 2009, 15:30:16

opera community

This blog is dying from indifference. Mine, and that of its potential readers.

There was a time when it was possible for me to nurture the illusion that my writings here, somehow, mattered. Not so anymore.

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