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Saturday, May 22, 2010
7:00-9:00pm
Butter Bakery Cafe – website
3544 Grand Avenue South, Minneapolis – map
Come join Mark at this cozy neighborhood coffeehouse for music, lattes, and great deserts.
SPECIAL: Free small beverage with dessert purchase – while the music plays!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Grand Cafe – website
7:00pm-9:00pm
Corner of 38th and Grand Ave in South Minneapolis – map
First Sunday of the Month. The weather is bound to be beautiful outside, but the music is better inside.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Grand Cafe – website
7:00pm-9:00pm
Corner of 38th and Grand Ave in South Minneapolis – map
Third Sunday of the Month. Classical and latin guitar. Stop by for dinner, dessert, or a glass of wine and enjoy great music and good company!
In Honor of National Poetry Month, I’m sharing a poem that my friend Al Norton read at OpenStage a few years ago. If you’re a musician, I think you’ll particularly understand the sentiment. It’s a beautiful poem about music and music making.
A LESSON IN MUSIC
by Alastair Reid
Play the tune again: but this time
with more regard for the movement at the source of it
and less attention to time. Time falls
curiously in the course of it.
Play the tune again: not watching
your fingering, but forgetting, letting flow
the sound till it surrounds you. Do not count
or even think. Let go.
Play the tune again: but try to be
nobody, nothing, as though the pace
of the sound were your heart beating, as though
the music were your face.
Play the tune again: It should be easier
to think less every time of the notes, of the measure.
It is all an arrangement of silence. Be silent, and then
play it for your pleasure.
Play the tune again: and this time when it ends,
do not ask me what I think. Feel what is happening
strangely in the room as the sound glooms over
you, me, everything.
Now, play the tune again.
from Weathering by Alastair Reid (Canongate Publishing, 17 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DR; 1978).
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It’s been a hectic month, so instead of posting something more seasonal, I thought I would polish up a piece from my concert program last month. It’s a beautiful short piece that I really enjoy playing; hope you’ll like it as well. And maybe “The Current” isn’t such a bad theme as we find ourselves drawn toward a fresh year.
Best wishes for a joyful and happy 2010!
