Able to leap tall octaves in a single bound!
One of my choir members has quite a sense of humor. This was my Christmas present from her this year (gotta love alto humor!). I do like him very much, and I can even download and print a fold-up clavichord for him here. Funny, though. The more I look at the picture of him, the more disturbing he becomes to me on so many levels. After all, for a superhero, he is rather stiff, isn’t he? He looks rather lonely, sitting there, hallucinating his clavichord, arms poised, mid-air, ready to strike the first chord of the Italian Concerto. You know what Landowska always said: “You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way.” I guess when you’re the great Landowska, you can get away with such arrogance! I don’t think my little Johann is nearly that arrogant. He looks all serious and stern, but heck, he’s only about five inches high! Who can take such a little guy so seriously, even with a face like that?
As children, though, didn’t we act out a lot of our…well, everything with action figures? G.I. Joe, some cowboy figure whose name I can’t even remember, and those we used to hallucinate. I had all sorts of people living in my lincoln log and lego houses. But they were always ordinary people, just like me. I never really had any superheroes then.
Maybe it’s not too late! Johann, are you ready to inspire me? As soon as I get a piece of white cardstock, I’m going to make your clavichord, I promise, and then you can serenade me here in my office while I wax philosophical like a very strange bird!
Or then again, maybe it’s the ordinary people that are really the superheroes.
I don’t know.
Maybe it’s me!
…looking for special things…
Be well, and at peace,
Phil
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