Musicon / Musical education / Piano – The tone formation and production
In the intricacy of its mechanism the piano stands next to the organ. The farther removed from direct utterance we are the more difficult is it to speak the true language of music. The violin player and the singer, and in a less degree the performers upon some of the wind instruments, are obliged ::More
Musicon / Music and Literature / Speaking with Mozart
And I heard from the empty spaces within the theater the sound of music, a beautiful and awful music, that music from Don Giovanni that heralds the approach of the guest of stone. With an awful and an iron clang it rang through the ghostly house, coming from the other world, from the ::More
Musicon / Music and Literature / We must play the best that we can
“Herr Pablo,” I said to him as he played with his slender ebony and silver walking stick, “you are a friend of Hermine’s and that is why I take an interest in you. But I can’t say you make it easy to get on with you. Several times I have attempted to talk about music ::More
