Author: Christina

Inspired By The Dying Of The Light

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Listen to a nocturne by Frederic Chopin late at night in a darkened room — just you and the music — and your spirit is taken somewhere beautiful, melancholy, mysterious — passionate. You are immersed in emotion, and emerge in the dawn light, soul-cleansed. There’s a lot of give in a Chopin nocturne, a looseness and fluidity to the sound, so interpretations vary enormously. The two pianists that I like best (today) are Dinu Lipatti and Brigitte Engerer. You might disagree with those choices but there’s a version of the nocturnes out there to suit everyone’s taste. So I was intrigued to find that Lipatti, Engerer and […]

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Astrology of Now: Listen For The Blue Quincunx

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I am sitting at a desk in a high-ceilinged room in Brighton. The tall window frames blue, at the lower edge lavender blossom and then a few inches above, the horizontal of prussian blue sea meeting pale, brilliant summer sky. In the distance, the sounds of church bells, surf, cars’ swish. My friend, whose flat I am borrowing, is a religious scholar. Beside me the Qur’an, The Muhaddithat, then the poet Brodsky’s On Grief and Reason. I gaze at the sea, listen to the chimes. I am at a loss for what to write. I cast a horary chart. “What shall I write about?” The answer […]

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