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St. Valentine, they say, was lost in love; and on his heart’s desire was so affixed that nothing here on earth or found above could heal him from sly Cupid’s arrow prick. St. Valentine, it seems, so loved himself that selfishly he jumped in a canal to punish she who put him on a shelf…
Keith Jarrett once said that the more you know about the piano, about harmony, the harder it is to decide which note to play next. Because you’ve moved from thinking of seven possible notes (the ones right under your fingers, in the diatonic scale) into a world of chromatics, modes, extended chords and passing tones,…
For a while, it is comforting to think everything happens for a reason. But honestly, MOST people who lay that on as a platitude mean that it applies when bad things happen to YOU. Just like so many go around with, “God is good” on their lips when they’re in clover, but blame others when…