Eva Besnyo, “Gypsy Boy,” Hungary - 1931 

(Source: catchmycat, via purplelovenotes)

If I looked like this I think I would hate myself, but it makes me happy that she does. 

(Source: purplelovenotes)

I’m afraid to ask how many bows they go through in a year. Why aren’t there more sexy cello beasts like this in the world? 

(Source: prototypical-nonconformist)

This is the quartet I’ll be a part of this year. At first I was not so attached, but as I get to play it more and more it grows on me. Got to love some of the pure cello moments :)

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."

Plato

so happy

Suggestions?

I need new study music… If anybody out there hears this, suggestions would be ADORED!

Over the Banister

Over the banister leans a face, tenderly sweet and beguiling    

While below her with tender grace  

He watches the picture smiling.  

A light burns dim in the hall below

Nobody sees them standing

Saying goodnight again, soft and low.  

Halfway up to the landing.  

Nobody, only those eyes of brown

Tender and full of meaning

Gaze on the loveliest face in town

Over the banister leaning.

Currently resonates with me…

Oh, I can’t take another heartache 
Though you say you’re my friend 
I’m at my wits end 
You say your love is bonafide 
But that don’t coincide 
With the things that you’re doing 
When I ask you to be nice 

You say you gotta be 
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure 
Cruel to be kind, it’s a very good sign 
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you 
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind 

Well, I do my best to understand dear 
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why 
I pick myself up off the ground 
And have you knock me back down 
Again and again 
And when I ask you to explain 

You say you gotta be 
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure 
Cruel to be kind, it’s a very good sign 
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you 
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind 

Well, I do my best to understand dear 
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why 
I pick myself up off the ground 
And have you knock me back down 
Again and again 
And when I ask you to explain 

You say you gotta be 
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure 
Cruel to be kind, it’s a very good sign 
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you 
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind

"I want to live like music sounds."

Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift