1,000,000 is a lot of almost anything. 1 million seconds is about 11 and a half days. 1 million days is more than 2,737 years. You could log 1 million miles (ish) by circling the earth about 40 times, or … Continue reading A Million Musical Words
This is something that baffles and fascinates me. I may have mentioned it here in passing before, but let’s talk about it some more. We’re on a little string of piano concertos here (first Arensky, then Rachmaninoff, then Prokofiev, and the next two weeks [well, this week and next week] [at least]), and Mahler is getting VERY in the way of me preparing for these. I’ve been on a kick with listening to LOTS of different interpretations of his pieces (at the time of this writing, I’m currently finishing up a listen to Boulez’s performance of the eighth with Staatskapelle … Continue reading 184 Years is a Long Time