I only wish that making improvements and rearrangements in life were as easy and as satisfying as making improvements and rearrangements in music. When I write or when I arrange I feel like I have total control over my tonal "kingdom" (or "queendom, which is not a word, but should be). But when I encounter the news of the day during this festival of lights, there is nothing I can do except to try to shine some sort of musical light, to make a few minutes of musical entertainment light up the shadows that threaten to darken our spirits.
You will find the above arrangement for string quartet under the transcription tab of
this page of the IMSLP. You can also find a PDF here, and listen
here.
But who can retell the things that befell us? Who can count them? In every age some hero or sage came to our aid.
I like to think that there are millions of heros and sages among us today (in every part of the world) who are on the side of light, freedom to live, and the side of love.
Happy fourth night of Hanukkah.
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Behind every rearview mirror, there's a great woman.
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