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David’s long-term project
The free concert at 3 pm, Saturday, October 29, 2011 – “Into the Dark” – at the Sherman Clay Pianos recital hall in Portland feels quite imminent to me now. After all, it’s been coming together as a...
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Lao-Tzu on “three treasures”
“I constantly have three treasures; Hold onto them and treasure them. The first is compassion; The second is frugality; And the third is not presuming to be at the forefront in the world. Now, it’s...
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David Salminen’s summer piano concert, Portland, Oregon
THE NATURE OF WATER – Sunday, August 17, 2014 – 3 pm Portland Piano Company, 711 SW 14th Ave, Portland Oregon http://www.portlandpianocompany.com There is no admission charge for this event, but...
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David’s summer concert – Portland, Oregon
(photo credit – NASA image – public domain) “Earth – You Are Here” David Salminen, piano improvisations July 10, 2016, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Portland Piano Company, 711 SW 14th Ave, Portland, OR 97205...
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“The Call of the Cosmos” 3 pm, Sunday, Jan 15, 2017 – Portland, Oregon
image: NASA – Hubble telescope – outer space… stars & galaxies free piano concert (donations welcome) Portland Piano Company 711 SW 14th Avenue, Portland, OR 97205 Phone: 503.775.2480 Toll-Free:...
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do-re-mi… the creative process
It may well be that Western music’s “major scale” is a musical metaphor: do is the moment of commitment. re is establishing contact with the work you’re doing, the process. mi is when you start to...
View ArticleI love you… an aside…
There is a particular Bach fugue that I like to practice (I am a keyboard artist) to the mental rhythm of “I love you, (wife’s name)”. It works for me, as a kind of meditation. I leave out the exact...
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“My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather, not I, but the Deity in me and in them, both...
View ArticleAiming high… may as well!
Music is, for both musicians and audiences, an awesome power, with the ability to create feelings of harmony, within oneself, and with others, with the world, and even with the greater cosmos… Music is...
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