Originally posted on The life and times of Perry…:
It’s hard to imagine that a whole week has gone by since the tragic death of George Floyd in the United States of America, and yet the protests continue around the world. When we see the images beamed across our television screens it is also hard…
Author Archives: Eli Evans
Listening to
What’s tickling my ears at the moment, Feb 2020.
Creation: Teardown
Teardown and oral history of my eleven-movement suite for orchestra and chorus, Creation.
We’re a Matched Set
My wife Olga and I have matching tattoos on the back of our necks — there’s a connection to music, and each other.
Sound and Fury, Signifying Everything
I’ve had a complicated relationship with music. This was going to be a short post about why I compose, but it turned into a memoir. #longreads
Why I Create
Johann Sebastian Bach used to sign all of his manuscripts with either the initials S.D.G. or the Latin phrase soli deo gloria. It means “To God alone be glory” and it’s a confession that the art contained therein belongs to the creator and is intended by the artist to glorify Him, not to glorify Bach. It’s less well-known that he often started his compositions with the initials J.J., or Jesu juva, “Jesus Help” or the German version, J.H.
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