Dagmar Feyen: The Tuesday Thing

Hi there,

As Tuesday is my day off from teaching, I have a little time on my hands. It so happens that a week ago I got a notice from hostbaby (yes, that is were my website comes from!) that there is now a cool "blog" application on my website. I thought: why not make use of it to spread some news around the www? I was also thinking of using this channel to boost my music writing a little bit, as I'm a little bit lazy, and creativity starts flowing only when there is a really, really urgent deadline to catch!

This got me thinking: I am a classical composer, what in ?!$!€ name is the benefit of composing one piece a week, just for putting it online for everybody to see (or hear, or both; I haven't figured thát out yet!)? As I said before: It will force me to write some music every week, and as Maurice Ravel said it also:

"inspiration is sitting at your desk everyday and start writing."

(For my procrastinating self, every week will allready be a huge victory!) He also was a master in setting up limitations for himself, to learn how to overcome them. So I'm going to compose the piece in one day, for piano solo (so I can play it myself), and using a name as inspiration. I hope that someone out there will read this blog and start posting names (first names, not last names).

So from next week on, there will be a fine piano piece waiting for you all to download and to play (You are all pianists, right?). I will also explain how I put the name in musical notes, and what kind of composition technique I apply (maybe something different every week, to make it fun...).

As good old Maurice also used to say (it is a program note for his "Valses nobles et sentimentales":

"... le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile."
("... the delicious and always new pleasure of doing something useless.")

Who am I to disagree with that?

See you next week in TTT ("the Tuesday thing")

Dagmar