Jul 20, 2007

Last night I hoped for today to be better, and even though I didn't know then that between that post and now I would have a visit to the ER and a sleepless night, I can honestly say that somehow it was.
more later, tomorrow, sometime.
I'm sleepy. I'm loopy. Good night.

4 comments:

Arwen said...

I hope everything is alright!!! I just stopped by to tell you that I put a link to your blog on my page... I'm feeling a great deal of affinity here... for me it is not yet the haunting melody of Chopin paired with incessant undulations of repetitive bass notes... although there is one on the list...I have not been brave enough to begin to bring life to the black on the page. lol... Right now it is Haydn... notes running at infinite speed with grace notes and ornaments that are driving me to sit and play and play and play... somehow it seems that klavier feeds perfectionism... and in that place I am the master that controls every infinite detail of sound and depth and tone. Prayers and peace... E

Christina said...

thank you so very much for the link, peace and prayers and for the beautiful comment. I feel very much that affinity and did not know you played - but it seems very right to find out you do - Haydn to me was always one of the happiest, but at the same time so structured, like Bach; though I loved his surprises, in the orderliness of it, and even the happiness I could not find myself... in Chopin I discovered there can be a constant, the throbbing heartbeat of the left notes, yet against it in beautiful contrast was that melody that was so unplanned unprecise and haunting. for me there is both logical and irrational in Frederic and I think that is what I love.

it only requires a very smallest speck of bravery and then you can bring life to whatever you will - you can practically fly...
C

Arwen said...

When I read your comment yesterday I had tears in my eyes... insightful to say the least... I sat in the dark last night and tried to work through the notes of the Chopin... I gave up when my hand cramped up... and went to bed. Woke up last night with cramps in my hands... I think I played for 5 hours or so yesterday... it is an invasion... either my life in the music, or the music in my life... a battle for time and space and attention. E

Christina said...

I can only say I know, and I know and I know.

Would love for you to write more about this... You have a beautiful voice.
C