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Beethoven’s Big Day
Posted on December 5, 2025 Leave a Comment
May 7, 1824. Beethoven wakes up, always at the same time. His head is heavy. It feels like red wine from yesterday evening is still swirling about inside him. He struggles out of bed, opens the window and looks out. Yes, the bells are swinging back and forth, yes, he cannot hear them. He remembers […]
The Miller and the Brook
Posted on March 1, 2025 Leave a Comment
I once heard a piece of music that bowled me over. It was a song written over two hundred years ago. It featured a baritone voice and a piano. It was sung in German. It was called Der muller und der bach (the miller and the brook). I didn’t understand the words. I didn’t need […]
My Mozart Project
Posted on May 26, 2020 Leave a Comment
A piano project. I never stop trying to improve.
Chopin
Posted on November 21, 2016 Leave a Comment
Chopin’s music comes on and my world changes. When it finishes, my world returns to what it was before, but the music stays with me.
The Piano and I
Posted on September 4, 2016 Leave a Comment
Classical piano music is my life blood. It stops me in my tracks and compels me to listen. My involvement is physical, engaging more than my ears and my brain. The music finds a way of getting under my skin and grabbing my attention no matter what my mind might be occupied with at the time. The music shuts out the world as I submit to it and […]
Gerry Roberts 
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