<p>Welcome! 🙂 I hope the daily music posts here on the blog are giving you a boost, in these strange and unsettling times. If you’re new to the series and would like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first one here. Today&#8217;s post features (yet more?) music by Felix Mendelssohn. The first of these two Songs without &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/04/03/song-and-story/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Song

<p>Welcome! 🙂 I hope the daily music posts here on the blog are giving you a boost, in these strange and unsettling times. If you’re new to the series and would like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first one here. Today&#8217;s post features music from the Renaissance (ca. 1350-1600), a work by English &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/04/02/byrd-in-hand/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Byrd in Hand</span></

<p>April greetings! In these strange and unsettling times, it&#8217;s good to feel that spring is really here. I hope the daily music posts here on the blog are giving you a boost. 🙂 If you&#8217;re new to the series and would like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first one here. Today&#8217;s post &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/04/01/april-songs/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">April Songs</span></a></p>

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. I&#8217;m sharing another Haydn sonata today; these seem to be perfect music &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/31/haydn-out/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Haydn Out</span></

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. Today&#8217;s two pieces go farther back in music history than the blog &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/30/to-the-renaissance/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">To the Renaiss

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. Today&#8217;s two pieces are miniatures by Johann Sebastian Bach: two of the &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/29/bach-miniatures/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bach Miniatu

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. I hope you&#8217;re not getting tired of Mendelssohn, because it seems like &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/28/songs-without-words-part-4/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">So

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. Yesterday&#8217;s little sonata by Franz Josef Haydn got some particular love on the &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/27/small-sonata-two/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Sma

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. Still working on the second movement from the Beethoven sonata featured yesterday, &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/26/one-small-sonata/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One S

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. Today&#8217;s post features the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s Sonata Op. &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/25/beethoven-part-1/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. Today&#8217;s musical two-fer is another pair of Felix Mendelssohn&#8217;s Songs without Words. (I &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/24/songs-without-words-part-3/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class=

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you’ll find the first of this series here. Today&#8217;s music is a pairing: a prelude and fugue by Johann Sebastian &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/23/bach-talk/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Bach Talk</span></a><

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you&#8217;ll find the first of this series here. Today&#8217;s post, like yesterday&#8217;s, borrows one of my older videos. &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/22/more-mozart/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">More Mozart

<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you can start here. Today&#8217;s post borrows one of my older videos. This is a complete sonata by Wolfgang &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/21/shadows-and-light/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Shadows and Light</sp

<p>I’m now making it a goal to share some music every day on the blog, as a break and mental boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you can start here. Today&#8217;s piece is one of my &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/20/finding-peace/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Finding Peace</span></a></p>

<p>I’m now making it a goal to share some music every day on the blog, as a break and mental boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you&#8217;d like to check out earlier posts, you can start here. Today&#8217;s post features more music by &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/19/songs-without-words-part-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Songs without Words, par

<p>If you&#8217;d like to catch up on the new project here on the blog, check out this post. The &#8220;One Bright Thing&#8221; project from January has returned and morphed a little. I&#8217;m now making it a goal to share some music every day, as a break and mental boost during these unsettling times. Hope this &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/18/a-little-light-music/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Little Light&

<p>(If you&#8217;d like to catch up on what the blog has been up to lately, check out this post!) Today&#8217;s music is another sonata slow movement: the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s Pastorale Sonata (Op. 28 if you&#8217;re keeping score). If I had to pick a single favorite composer, it would be Beethoven. He &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/17/beethoven-a-character/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text

<p>In the spirit of the new One Bright Thing project on the blog: a little space for your day. The music featured today is the slow movement of a sonata by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), one of the greats of the Classical era of music history. Mozart&#8217;s style is often elegant and precise, the kind &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/16/mozart-meditation/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mozart Meditation</span

<p>Continuing with my &#8220;keep calm and make art&#8221; project, as a way to refill and replenish during these strange and stressful times. Today&#8217;s One Bright Thing post features more music, another three-fer. These short pieces (each about 2 minutes long) are by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, who belongs to the Romantic era in music history &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/15/songs-without-words/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span c