HELEN 11/4: Mr. Schickele is a trickster, basing his first fugue on chopsticks, and the second on Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, the famous four note theme. One could say that there is something to be learned regarding musical form from the Short Tempered Clavier. I hope to figure out that “something!”
GRACE 11/5: With the frenzy of returning from vacation, I just played the first prelude and fugue yesterday. Was amused how long it took Orri to realize it was chopsticks!
This is definitely outside my comfort zone – jazzy satire that I’m trying to approach with a sense of amusement and just sort of let it be what it is.