Sorry for the lapse of time: the days are filled with preparation for a recording project: After more than 40 years of fascination with the Brahms C Major Piano Trio, Op. 87 we are recording it live tomorrow. How did I first realize that the piece was more mysterious than it looks on paper? Because it felt uncomfortable: always overplayed, never really in tune with itself. Negative feelings are so often the key to real lasting insight.
I remember as a kid being intrigued by the song "Oh, my darlin' Clementine." Sure sounds like a sad story. Can't be! But it is fun to sing it exaggerating its tragic surface. There is a young boy wh
Every time I cross 109th St. on my way up or downtown I cast a glance at the apartment building on the corner of 109 and Riverside Drive, the former residence of Hannah Arendt. Her essays in The New Y
Funny, how we take for granted that someone is listening when we talk to them. Do you recall ever talking to someone who wasn't paying the slightest attention to you and/or to what you were saying? T