As I get older, a certain aspect of wisdom has come my way. Being someone who will never completely surrender their “Peter Pan Principle” this does not mean I will all together submit to advancing age. I only intend to assimilate its (aging) better aspects, and like a fledgling alchemist, I will try to mix some childlike wonder with a […]
I first heard about Alain-Fournier while doing research on one of my favorite composers, Maurice Ravel. I was researching Ravel’s 1928 American tour at the Minnesota History Museum. I later turned over my findings to the Ravel museum in Montfort L’Amaury, near Paris. This museum was Ravel’s home until his passing in 1937, and I have visited it several times
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As I have said before in this space my favorite hobby is to study the work of classic pianists of the past. The “somewhat” distant pianists of the past I have looked at encompass Cortot, Lipatti, Rubinstein, Horowitz, Schnabel, Rachmaninoff, Godowsky, Hofmann, etc. The more recent past include Gould, Ashkenazy, and “Sigi”. Born in Bulgaria and migrating to America during
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Happy Holidays! As the year winds down, I am busy booking 2018 dates that will commence in March. I will be trying to compose some new material for next year. As usual I will be playing in two trios. East Side with Matt Senjem and Michael Bissonnette, and Sidewalk Cafe with Gary Schulte and Jeff Brueske. There will also be
“Sasha and Dinu” (composed and performed by reynold d. philipsek 2017 copyright. Zino-Rephi Music BMI) I have been working on my solo acoustic guitar repertoire in order to prepare a recital program. I will probably film this recital at some point in the next year to be posted on Youtube or at my site. My recent interest in
After a year where we finished production on and promotion of the documentary film “A Life Well Played,” as well as releasing a new album, “Picture This,” and playing about 100 gigs during 2017 it is time to sit back and figure out what is next. My first inclination is to prepare a solo acoustic guitar set to be done