often enoughseveral times a monthcertainly once, or twice a weekmuch more often than men are toTears do not come off disgust in the presence of the abominableThe most sincere tears come not from pain, not from ugliness, not from frustration. I cry for joys, on emotions, often while witnessing the gentle human in exchange with… Continue reading I cry
Day: July 26, 2022
The Life You Give: Alexis Weissenberg *VII 26 1929
If one wanted to make a biographical feature film about a classical musician, the life of the Bulgarian-American-French pianist Alexis Weissenberg would furnish ideal subject material. Born in Sofia in 1929, Weissenberg was taught to play the piano by his mother. Several members of her family were Vienna Conservatory-trained musicians, and Weissenberg grew up in… Continue reading The Life You Give: Alexis Weissenberg *VII 26 1929