Music

Oh geez I feel vicariously awkward for you. I can imagine how that could happen if you're really concentrating.

What sort of stuff do you play, brp?

Heh, my peculiar genetics don’t help in that regard. Least I don’t get the Lang Lang look.

On the piano, it’s mostly baroque to early romantic keyboard music (poorly). In fact, lately I’ve been working my way through parts of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier and Beethoven’s sonatas (what Hans von Bülow, in his characteristic way of saying witty yet somehow ill-advised things, called the “Old Testament” and “New Testament” of music); some of them are way past my level. I really want to dig deep into some of them Chopin pieces and beyond, but that’s a long way off. Maybe then I can get into those impossibly difficult late romantic and modern guys who like to fill the page with notes and accidentals (I’d have to look them up first, though!).

I’ve also been getting my feet wet in improvisation and composition. It must be infuriating to the whole neighborhood.

Jazz and gospel playing are like alien languages to me.

To make this not all about me:
Johann Sebastian Bach had 20 children.

(seriously, what the crap)