Two decades ago I devoured Stephen Greenblatt’s phenomenal Shakespeare biography Will in the World and I decided to pull this book from the shelf again. The first surprise was the author’s signature in the book. Suddenly I remembered I had attended his lecture at the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam. In the meantime I read […]
Shakespeare
Comfort music in anxious times
Words fall short these days; you just hit the wrong key in everything you say. Hence my choice for instrumental music. Brad Mehldau often touches me with his own compositions, with his Bach arrangements, but also with his interpretations of meaningful pop songs. Just before the theaters closed, the American pianist and his trio gave […]