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rhapsodydmbSep 21, 20233 minHARMONIZING THE WORLD: My journey with 432 Hz continues...When I'm playing my favored new style of pieces these days, i.e., simple, lyrical, and slow, I sometimes just stop dead upon hearing a...
rhapsodydmbSep 17, 20234 minTHE DIGNITY OF "TRIVIAL LITTLE PIECES"If famed cellist Pablo Casals could do it – so can I! While Vivian Mackie was studying cello with Pablo Casals in Spain in the early...
rhapsodydmbAug 10, 20235 minTHE POETIC MUSE AND WHY I WRITEReading David Dowling’s pithy compendium of C. S. Lewis’ comments on writers and writing, (On Writing and Writers: A miscellany of advice...