This essay on mistakes has some stuff about playing the piano that inspired me to type in a favorite passage from one of my favorite novels, Frank Conroy's Body and Soul. Claude, the main character, is a young pianist, and Fredericks is his teacher.

One morning in the castle, after a year of lessons, Claude played the Mozart ( Read more... )

I made a Commodore 64 play "Taps":

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"By Rachmaninoff-sized hands, I of course mean hands the size of Rachmaninoff's, not hands the size of Rachmaninoff himself."

Enjoyed a lot of live music on the weekend:
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