Category: Music

Wow!! Chopin was always one of my top faves and this video from Daniil Trifonov is such a treat.. here is the full piece Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66

I hope this piece makes your day a little brighter 🙂

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I was asked to join the Carleton College Orchestra for their spring concert and I am so glad I did! The selection of music was amazing, the conductor James T. Chang was amazing, the musicians were amazing.. I almost cried about 4 times during the concert.

My two favorite pieces that we played are very very different from each other. The first is so interesting and inspiring!

Jessie Montgomery’s 2012 piece “Starburst”

We had a wonderful piano player who soloed Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. It’s such a beautiful piece in every way, so moving!

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I just watched this movie from 1988 “The Red Violin” and it was so good!! It was a very inspiring story about a violin built in Italy in 1681.

The journey it takes across 400 years is amazing: going to a monastery in 1700’s Germany, to a virtuoso in Oxford, England, to communist China in the 1960’s (where it is almost destroyed for being Western), and then all the way to an auction house in Montreal where it sells for 2 million dollars.

The music was mostly performed by the great Joshua Bell. I highly recommend!

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Love this song so much! I have it for cello and play it at events.. It’s on my list to record too!

Here are the lyrics with translation:

Story of a Love

Historia de Un Amor

You are no longer by my side, my heart

Ya no estás más a mi lado, corazón

In my soul, I only have lonelines

En el alma, solo tengo soledad

And if I can’t see you anymore

Y si ya no puedo verte

Why did God make me love you

¿Por qué Dios me hizo quererte

To make me suffer more?

Para hacerme sufrir más?

You were always the reason for my existence

Siempre fuiste la razón de mi existir

Adoring you was like a religion to me

Adorarte para mí fue religión

Continuted HERE!

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I am planning on doing my own version of The Verve’s 1997 “Bittersweet Symphony”. It’s such a cool song and will sound great on the cello!

As I was thinking about it I vaguely remembered that there was some drama with their famous hook, a strings sample. I looked into and it and they lost millions for 22 years over this!

Long story short the iconic strings sample was from an orchestral cover of a Rollins Stones song in 1965. So it wasn’t even in the original Stones song.. (the sample comes in at 1:40)

I had to take a music copyrighting class in college and it was my least favorite class ever! It was so confusing because of all the lawyers and industry people involved.. there was really no music in this class lol

At the end the Rolling Stones decided to give the rights back to The Verve in 2019 and they can now make money off of this gorgeous track. Here is The Verve playing live.

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My husband sent me this video of a “musical road” in Hungary and now I am down the rabbit hole! It’s so cool:

The road only “sings” if you drive the speed limit so what a great way to get people to slow down!

I also found one from California that sounds terrible and got built wrong.. twice.. LOL!!

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I find a lot of inspiration in dance, especially a very sport driven dance like figure skating. I watched Ilia Malinin’s performance from the 2025 Grand Prix in France about 25 times. I went to look for it today from NBC Sports and weird.. it’s totally gone! There is some sort of copyright issue, even the NBC website won’t post it.. So anyways here is an audience members version off of their phone.

Obviously he is amazing, but the music is really beautiful too. He used two different songs including “The Ball” by Asaf Avidan.

I have been trying to find a score for this and I hope I do because I really don’t want to have to write this myself lol!!! It’s not super hard but it would take me a long time… anyways.. enjoy because it’s so pretty!! 🙂

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We just got a new Samsung washer and dryer and I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard it go off.. because it sang me a song!

I was like OMG this is so long.. and kinda pretty! So I had to look it up: https://www.hunker.com/13771126/samsung-laundry-song/

Apparently, Samsung thought that “home appliances should blend naturally into consumers’ lifestyles, whereas the traditional, more industrial-sounding alerts from appliances can be unpleasant and distracting,”

I agree! The dryer song is Shubert’s 1817 piece Die Forelle, which translates to “the trout”.

And I also found some simple sheet music for it too!

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I used to live in Portland, Oregon and there are so many things about Northfield that remind me of PDX.. including this upcoming event I saw via HotSpot music.

Northfield Porchfest! From their Facebook:

We envision music in various neighborhoods during the day, followed by a collective gathering at the end of the day. Much like a “pottery tour” or “studio tour” we will make a map and publicize the events as a whole for that day.

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