Classical

🎼 BRIDGING ERAS AND ETHOS (through music)

Carmina Burana has always been known for its fire — the thunder of “O Fortuna,” the…
🎼 BRIDGING ERAS AND ETHOS (through music)

This hybrid began without intention and revealed itself as a journey: Bach, Pachelbel, and finally the…
🎼 BRIDGING ERAS AND ETHOS (through music)

When I first played Beethoven’s Ode to Joy at the piano, another melody slipped in as…
🎼 FIGLIO PERDUTO

Beethoven’s Allegretto has always felt like a midnight ride through the soul — steady, fateful, unadorned.…
THE THREE FRENCH VISITATIONS

The Three French Visitations Some music we seek out. Some music seeks us. Over the years,…
NABUCCO: VA PENSIERO

Two recordings of Verdi’s Va, pensiero — each revealing a different soul. The first, an intimate…
MY THREE PEAKS: SCHUBERT, BEETHOVEN AND CHOPIN

THE THREE PEAKS Beethoven • Schubert • Chopin Across a lifetime of music, three pieces rose…
🦢THE OTHER SWAN

Two swans. One from 2013 — soft, sincere, played on digital cello and harp. The other…
🦢”SWAN LAKE” IN THE GULCH

In a quiet Maui evening, after dinner by fire in a sacred stone circle, I sat…
🎭”CARMEN” SUITE – MUSIC, MEMORY & THE FIRE WITHIN

Inspired by Bizet’s fiery opera and a vivid memory from the Bregenz Festival, this Carmen Suite…