Reverie written and performed by Reynold Philipsek John Mc Laughlin is a composer and guitarist I admire very much. Mc Laughlin is a little over ten years older than myself and is someone that I only admire more as time goes on. His playing and composing gets better with time and his prolific energy is amazing. Either his daily meditation […]
Quixote — Written and performed by Reynold Philipsek, copyright 2017, available as a complimentary download on the Free MP3s page. The 17th Century Spanish tale by Miguel de Cervantes of Don Quixote and his adventures has inspired many artists. Both Orson Welles and Terry Gilliam spent considerable time, money and energy shooting miles of film to no avail or a
“Funkenstein” (written and performed by Reynold D. Philipsek) Just a little dab of flotsam and jetsam I concocted in the laboratory for Halloween. These little funk riffs have been laying around in my “attic†for many years. Now I have finally found a final resting place for them. I first “unearthed†these riffs in my late teens only to “reanimateâ€
For some odd reason Autumn stirs deep memories in me. As of late I have thought a lot about my grandmother. She spoke very little English and always pronounced my name as “Ronyalâ€. She was a very tiny woman and a prolific rose gardener. Only now (alas, too late) do I realize what a unique link I had not only
My hobby is and has been for some time to study the life and works of various concert pianists. Arthur Rubinstein is a favorite and his autobiography is wonderful. I also am interested in two pianists of the 20th century who passed away before their time. That is Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950) and William Kapell (1922-1953). As of late I have
In my pursuits as an autodidact I find that one discovery leads to another and that this rather circuitous path never seems to end. So the more I search the more I “discover.” For instance, my intense interest in the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) led to my stumbling upon Carel Fabritius. Fabritius came slightly before Vermeer and both were
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