Here is a collection of sayings, bon mots, brief observations about music that I’ve collected over the years.  Perhaps some of them will speak to you…

• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

• Music is indivisible.  The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

• Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

• The entire pleasure of music consists in creating illusions, and common sense is the greatest enemy of musical appreciation.

• What gives music its universal appeal is the very fact that it is at the same time the most subtl...

Welcome to my new online journal, Notes From A Studio! In it, I will, from time to time, share my thoughts about music in general, and the piano in particular, with anyone who happens across it.

Why the title?  Since I am writing it in my studio, it seemed like a clever idea to incorporate the dual meaning of notes – things jotted down, noted – and notes sounded on a piano.  The title also brings to mind memories of walking down the street and coming randomly upon the sound of a musical instrument being played.  There’s something magical about the unexpected experience of hearing a piano, violin or someone singing coming from a home. Here is a lone voice, practicing perhaps, or playing for their own enjoyment.  I am an ‘auditory voyeur’ hap...