by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | May 17, 2024 | Musings, Studio
In May of 2021, while away for a birthday weekend far out of the city with a long-time friend and our families, I found myself bouncing some ideas off her over an early-morning cup of coffee on a farmhouse “stoep”. I was facing a rather painful ending in my own life,...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | May 17, 2024 | Musicians, Musings
I imagine that at occasions where a group of musicians are playing background music, the people in the crowd listen to the music emanating from the ensemble and are mostly appreciative of the skill that it has taken to learn or read the notes…or sometimes even of the...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | Mar 15, 2024 | Musicians, Musings
As a musician who has been playing various gigs for years, I have had the privilege of adding music to all the special moments and occasions that punctuate people’s lives. It is seldom that communities around the world gather for these celebrations without music,...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | May 7, 2021 | Musings
In the first weeks of learning to play the violin, my pupils are introduced to what I call the “squiggle”. It’s proper name is a crotchet rest. It is friends with the crotchet note. They have just learnt that blobs and dots with sticks on are notes and that when...
by Kerryn Bailey Torrance | Mar 26, 2018 | Mom Life, Musings
I’m competing for single working mother of the year award! Here’s how the day played out. Wake up to eldest son dressed and packed for camp…he’s even packed his own snacks for bus and lunch (+ 5 points for good parenting…or is that – 5 points for...
