I have just completed a 7-week free music course on “The World of String Quartets” at the online course “Coursera”. Only when I began to take notes did I pass the questions from each week’s program. Coursera offers courses from many different universities in all subjects. This one was for the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in the U.S.A. […]
A Danish psalm is called something like the title of this blog post. In 1914 the father of Rued Langgaard died when Rued was 20 years old. The young man was a gifted musician and played variations over that psalm (“Mig Hjertelig Længes” in Danish) at the father’s funeral at Frederiksberg Church close to Copenhagen. The psalm is also used by J.S.Bach in his Matthew Passion, […]
My blogging friend Clive from England inspired me to make a post on the Danish String Quartet who also performs traditional Nordic Folk music in a new way. Clive wrote last week about the very resent death of a famous English folk musician called Swarb. Clive writes: Does the name Dave Swarbrick mean anything to you? No? I thought not. Swarb, […]
From one Heart to Another 