Tag: Austria

Classical Crash Course, part three: Mahler? I Hardly Know Her

by audebo

I want to start this blog with an apology to all 4 of you who are reading this so far. On Wednesday, I promised I’d be bringing you Rachmaninoff, but I made a mistake. I thought the piece that I was thinking of was by our pal Rach, but it’s not. So instead of reading more … Continue reading Classical Crash Course, part three: Mahler? I Hardly Know Her

Deep Roots, Small Wings

by audebo

I walked arm-in-arm with an 80-something Slovak woman in the dead of night through the streets of Vrbovce. I had known her for all of ten minutes and she didn’t speak a word of English. We were united only by mutual curiosity, and a desire to go to sleep. The town was dead quiet. No … Continue reading Deep Roots, Small Wings