“Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Photo: Conducting the Saint Louis Symphony in concert
A lot of care and pride has gone into the creation of this site. For years I have poo-poo’ed the idea of having a website. I already had a career, people knew how to find me and I am not one to self-promote. That sort of thing is just not in my character. Call it antiambition, if you will. But here we are and this site was created in order to share my views on a plethora of subjects, including the wild ride I started in June of 2019.
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Maestro Lord has embarked upon a journey of writing a book about the details in various scores, arias, scenes that are many times overlooked by singers, coaches and conductors.
A sample from La traviata (opening of Act II)
A careful look at this recitative will show us that it is in three distinct parts. Allegro vivo, an Andante and an Adagio. Three parts – three different attitudes. Three different tempi.
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