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Boris finds his Groove
When I was 16, my younger sister Emily made me a teddy bear in her art class at school. It turns out, Boris was one of the best presents...

Heather Wade
Mar 1, 20242 min read
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Fancy Schmancy
So all of you who are loyal followers (THANK YOU) know that the project for the summer is a Dance Suite that I wrote and am dribbling out...

Heather Wade
Jun 29, 20222 min read
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Nannerl and Fanny
I am working up a Mozart piano trio right now, for the Meetinghouse concert in July... Tuesday, July 5, 7:30 Heather Goodchild Wade,...

Heather Wade
Jun 15, 20222 min read
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Glenn Gould doesn't care what you think...
Well, firstly, because he's not alive anymore. He was obviously a genius, and a brilliant interpreter of Bach, but he was also a...

Heather Wade
Jun 8, 20221 min read
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Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge might be the name of this cool bridge. If not, maybe I will name it that, unofficially, I guess, since I don't actually...

Heather Wade
Jun 1, 20222 min read
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2 degrees of separation...
Yo Yo Ma was in the news recently after being awarded the 2022 Birgit Nilsson Prize, and the award he receives totals... ONE MILLION...

Heather Wade
May 20, 20221 min read
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Pieces and bits (Grosse Fuge part 3)
I have a memory of my grandad from when I was fairly young. My grandad was an English policeman (a bobby, complete with hat and stick),...

Heather Wade
May 16, 20222 min read
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My mom is practicing and Trinity is SAD...
One of the things that happens when you're a working musician is that you work at all kinds of weird hours. Weekends, late rehearsals,...

Heather Wade
May 7, 20221 min read
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BEATLES BABY!
Okay, so here are 2 of the million reasons why I love my Cape Symphony job...these pictures were taken during the Classical Mystery Tour...

Heather Wade
May 7, 20221 min read
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Grosse Fuge (part 2)
Beethoven was his own kind of genius, someone generally thinking miles ahead of the rest of us, and sometimes people didn't (or don't)...

Heather Wade
May 2, 20222 min read
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The beauty of Urtext (Grosse Fuge part 1)
ur·text /ˈo͝orˌtekst/ noun an original or the earliest version of a text, to which later versions can be compared. In a couple of weeks...

Heather Wade
Apr 27, 20222 min read
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Oliver!
How cool is this? My big girls were bitten by the theatre bug when they got a chance to collaborate with the high school kids in their...

Heather Wade
Apr 13, 20222 min read
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Alexander Hamilton....My name is Alexander Hamilton...
My son Caleb is a boy of many obsessions. Each lasts anywhere from a few weeks to a year. We have thoroughly considered Star Wars,...

Heather Wade
Apr 12, 20221 min read
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Intense Critical Obervation (ICO)
I share my house - with Scott, and the kids, and Luna (woof). But we are lucky enough to have space in the attic, and I have a studio...

Heather Wade
Apr 11, 20221 min read
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