{"id":5681,"date":"2026-10-02T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=5681"},"modified":"2026-10-04T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:32:10","slug":"played-by-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=5681","title":{"rendered":"Played by Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like all musicians, even a dabbler like myself, I have a special, loving relationship with pieces I’ve played.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a few years before Covid I stopped practicing classical guitar. For over fifty years I had played, badly I insist, without a trace of false humility. On occasion I had stopped before.\u00a0 <\/span>But I always resumed, especially since the turn of the century, when I regularly got up in the morning to practice for an hour or two.<\/p>\n

This time, something else was happening. I just plumb gave up, and I knew it too. Something was wrong with my fingers. I sought out videos of aging performers, Segovia at 75, and tortured myself with remarks by legendary septuagenarians who kept at it. Then, three years ago, I found out that I suffer from Parkinson’s. I can barely button a shirt now.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I suspect I was less of a musician and more of an attention addict. As I wrote,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The incessant repetition of passages and the sense of solitude I attain when playing should place me somewhere on the autism spectrum, though I taught myself early \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/em>on to hide my solipsistic tendencies and be as socially functional as possible<\/b>.<\/em> \u00a0<\/span>From <\/span>A Repertoire of Sorts<\/i><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are no presentable recordings of my work but here are links to some of those pieces I played, played by others<\/b>. Those who find them appealing will have shared with me something of the many, many hours spent communing with them.<\/p>\n

Here is the first one. Others will follow.<\/p>\n

Tarantella<\/i><\/b>, from Bardenklange<\/i> (1847), Johann Kaspar Mertz. Played by Haruka Lee. https:\/\/youtu.be\/1A5mWs_319k?si=mn6t49D1Nk4FyiLP<\/a><\/p>\n

Score video by\u00a0 <\/span>Patel Kuktha . https:\/\/youtu.be\/23m5FhA3EXc<\/a>\u00a0 Dad sent me the sheet music to Liberia, where I was living and teaching 1967-1969.<\/p>\n

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Reprised here from Guitar Notes<\/i><\/a>,<\/span> \u00a0which imcludes:
\nMy Library of Guitar Sheet Music<\/a>
\nA Repertoire, of Sorts
\n<\/a>Mickey Mouse Music<\/a>
\n<\/a>In Search of Bossa Nova
\n<\/a>Flamenco Heaven
\n<\/a>The Anticipatory Wake of Fiesta<\/a><\/p>\n

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Like all musicians, even a dabbler like myself, I have a special, loving relationship with pieces I’ve played.\u00a0 Just a few years before Covid I stopped practicing classical guitar. For over fifty years I had played, badly I insist, without a trace of false humility. On occasion I had stopped before.\u00a0 But I always resumed, … <\/p>\n

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