Chopin, Nocturnes,Sheet Music Part 2 – The Power of Memory

In which we pursue our dream of mastering the piano without the aid of the Brownies and without a piano Family legend has it that one of my great uncles – inevitably on my father’s side, for it was my paternal grandmother who boasted the mad inventor father and 13 siblings – was so talented a…

Chopin, Nocturnes, Sheet Music and the Brownies

As a small child I was encouraged by my mother to join the Brownies, an institution she had relished so much in her own childhood that she had gone on to be a Girl Guide and the veteran of many a Brownie and Girl Guide camping expedition.  At the time as a seven year old…

Music washes away……..

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. “ Berthold Auerbach                     Guitars and Mandolin                      All photos © Jane Morley