by Susan Mattern | | Life, Music, Piano
I’m a classical pianist. But I’ve always been envious of other musicians. Almost every member of the orchestra gets to carry his own special instrument and perform on it. Flutes, clarinets, guitars, cellos, violas, piccolos, French horns. People in bands get to march...
by Susan Mattern | Dec 15, 2018 | Convent, Human Connection, Power of Music
Two hundred years ago, a parish priest in Germany struggled to write a musical accompaniment to a Christmas poem he had written. He had worked on it for a few years but wasn’t satisfied with it. On the morning of December 24th, he asked the music director at his...
