Painting with music

A memory from my childhood is my fascination for the music my mother created. Sweetest were the nights when I went to bed with an open door letting Schubert, Mozart and Grieg fill every corner of my room.

I wanted to learn how to make this music myself, and when I was 7 my mother took me to her own old teacher, Mrs. Buen. We walked there, to a part of our city with big fascionable villas. Mrs. Buen met us at the door and took us to her music studio where her black piano was the senter.

I practiced for many years, and at some point I even did quite good, but somehow the music would never flow the way I was used to hear from my mother's fingers.My piano playing was stored away in my creativity chest, and almost forgotten

I have started to play again. At least to give my stiffening fingers some excersise.

Marta is living through my old fascination for my mother's music, and this week she asked grandma "Can you teach me to play?"

Autum break means time to play, and Marta's fingers have been drawn to the piano for hours every day.

Photos: my two Martas playing earlier this week. We were invited for dinner to my parnets - Terje, Marta, I and my camera (photos will be posted over at The Blue Café), and after dinner, music filled the air.

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Many more Venezia posts are waiting. Autumn break takes us to our cabin today, leaving behind a garden ready for winter (see The Blue Garden blog). The first snow came just as I had put the last tulip bulb down yesterday afternoon. Only a very thin snowquilt, but it tells that King Winter is around the corner.

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Update: Freefalling asked me about my favorite music. Here is a list of the five cds I mostly play these days (next week the list will be a different one)

• Vocalises with Natalie Dessay
• Duets with Anna Netrebko and Roland Villazón
• The Art of Fugue by Bach
• Schubert Trout Quintet
• Carlo Gesualds Madrigali

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My opera this month is Die Zauberflöte