Monthly Archives: May 2009
A Night with Beethoven & Jongen
May 31 A Night with Beethoven & Jongen It was another wonderful musical experience last night with Edo de Waart and Olivier Latry, the head organist of the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris. The Program started off with an excerpt from Delius’ opera A … Continue reading
From Heart to Brain
Just read a chapter of Norman Doidge"s The Brain That Changes Itself on Love and Addiction. Dr. Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist who trotted the globe in search of knowledge about the functioning of the human brain and the physiological … Continue reading
Daisy Miller
This gem of a novellette about certain types Americans in Europe, which became a much developed theme in Henry James’s later and more ambitiious novels, is a delight to read. It was said to have developed from some gossips about a young … Continue reading
Another Strange Dream
I had another strange and haunting dream last night. I was sliding down a river, flowing gently between the banks of a lush countryside, with trees and fields all around, rather peacefully, amongst the floating leaves fallen from the trees along … Continue reading
Finally Free from God
Today is special. I’m finally free from God. For a long time, I have been searching for God. He is said to be omnipresent. But I found him omniabsent everywhere I looked. Perhaps I did not look for him … Continue reading
From Morality to God
I was quite suprised at the turnout on Sunday of the Study Group at Baptist College. It was raining cats and dogs. Apparently God is still a huge box office draw, at least amongst certain Christians and academics. The talk … Continue reading
King of the Gypsies
This Hollywood version of the lives of a group of people which American mainstream society has always regarded with suspicion, incomprehension and for some, a certain romanticism atttempts to chronicle its disintegration through the eyes of the last of its "kings" . … Continue reading
Edo de Waart Did it Again
I do not have to hope now. I merely expect Edo and the HK Philharmonic to be good. My problem is what kind of new delight and joy they will together bring me each time I attend their concert. Despite … Continue reading
A Night with Zukerman
Got an invitation to hear Zukerman playing various excerpts for violin and orchestra and conducting the Sifonietta at what was billed as A Gala with Zukerman. Nice and attractive title for the orchestra’s fund raising activity. I went with high … Continue reading
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
This latest book by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee , who have been writing on the Human Mind for some time, gives us some really useful information on how we may actually have developed our sense of our "self". Philosophers, pscyhologists … Continue reading
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