Thanks @Daisey for letting me know about this year long reading adventure about music!
I‘m listening to the audiobook on Amazon Music ( it must come with my Amazon Unlimited subscription) & listening to the music playlist on Spotify.
Wow! Classical Music 🎶 is so beautiful! 🎶🎶🎶
#AYearOfWonder
🎶 I saw posts last year about this book that includes information about a piece of classical music and often the composer for each day of the year. After completing A Tree A Day in 2025, this seems like a great book for 2026. The ebook edition is currently $1.99 if anyone else is interested, and playlists of the music are available on Spotify & Apple Music. If you are reading it, please comment so I can watch for your posts. 🎶
#AYearOfWonder
pickAnd finished just now, a little into the new year, but technically still New Year‘s.
Why an amazing ride. This is the second time I listen to the pieces in this book. And some I absolutely loved, some I liked, some are okey and some I didn‘t like. Which is just as it should be when you listen to 366 pieces in a year
I‘ll start her second book tomorrow and is ready for a new musical adventure
pickI have loved our morning routine of listening to a piece of music over breakfast. My husband and I are both classically trained musicians and yet still found new things to think about. Sometimes it was a new-to-us piece; more often a new bit of information about a composer. But it was such a grounding way to start the day. (Much better than doom-scrolling the news!) We had a hard time finding her second volume from a source that would ship 👇🏻
What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heavenly King?
Awake the voiceAwake the string!
https://youtu.be/yckjpO1vvnE
Book Lovers Almanac: from the Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
A Tree a Day: The Holly King, symbolizes winter and darkness
My son & I picked it up today, & fell into the rabbit wholeheartedly into the rabbit hole of contemporary composer Eric Whitacre.We listened to his rendition of Lux Aurumque,or Light and Gold,based on a poem by the poet Edward Esce.Whitacre said of this poem: [whose] “genuine,elegant simplicity…[means] “A simple approach was essential to the success of the work, and I waited patiently for the tight harmonies to shimmer and glow.”His chorus shines.
My #DoubleSpin for November was to listen to the October musical pieces in this book which I have no done
As I‘ve written a couple of times, I‘ve fallen behind on my listening in this book
I finally made it to this date, and this musical piece is amazing 🤩
September‘s musical pieces were my #BookSpin for September, and I‘m finally finished
The curious thing happened. My listening had been going well, so I thought I would buy her second book. With the result that I stopped listening, and now has some catching up to do
But I love these musical pieces and how they introduce me to so many different composers
