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Interesting. Living in city I did not truly experience rain, snow, wind and any other weather elements as all of it was out there, out of the walls of our city-barricaded live.   City life is made to discard the influence of snow. Even if had 2 feet snow or 10” of rain then the city infrastructure took care about it and we were very little affected.  Moving in suburb has own cons and pros. One of the discoveries I made in new place was is whether.

The house I got was in poor weather-resistance shape and I spend a lot of efforts to convert it to the house I feel comfortable.  I made 200 feet of French drain, Hydro-isolated walls in basement, number of pumps, my own 9 feet deep pitched drain pipe that dump the underground water under the house to the nearby river, connection the out of house drains into my own centralized monitorable draining system, loading attic with huge amount of insulation, introduction of 5 heating zones and connection of everything in centralized web enable alarming systems, and many other things… It was a lot of work but what the famous New England weather hit its “best” and some many of my friends are bitching about all imaginable aggravations I am sitting in my chair, smoking my Cohibas and truly enjoy to see how the systems of my house are fighting with nature. So, far they do spectacular, send the Noah's Flood now!

The  big window in my new listening room are made my listing experiences very much connected with weather outside.  Today we have a very nice and friendly light snow with no wind and I am listening my Bach.

The entire last week I was spinning Bach’s Harpsichord concertos. I am a huge fun of them and I feel that Bach First Piano Concerto in D minor is one of the greatest pieces of music even was composed.  The only problem is that it short. If it was up to me then I would made first movement last for 4 hours – it literally painful when this music stops. Bach music is what that I most frequently play on Sundays. In fact most of my listening lately is a redirection between Bruckner and Bach. This weekend was no exception.  Yesterday was WCRB’s live-to-tape broadcast of Bruckner 8 by Zander and Boston Philharmonic and the rest of the weekend I was records of Travor Pinnock Bach’s harpsichord concertos.

To play Bach on weekends I open all windows blinds and have the full room exposed to nature.  Eight years ago I wrote that sound of rain drops is very much associates for me with Bach

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but in this new room the visual impact behind the window  adds lot of sensations to it. What I discover about myself however, was that in order to fully enjoy nature I need to be “saved”. I mean I need to be comfortable about my state, I need to be wormed, I need to have a confidence that why I am enjoy rain I will not be flooded, I need to know that heavy snow blizzard will not make my driveway unusable, collapse my roof or deck, that very low temperature will not froze my pipes, that heavy wind will not know out my antenna or will not bring that huge over 100 feet pine tree right next to my listening room on my head. Sure they are not real “fears” but this since of security and confidence I find is very useful to have that “open to nature” listening style.  Perhaps it is the voice of newbie home owner talk in me but it is what it is. In spirit I am an urban man and I like to enjoy nature but to have a full control over it. Otherwise the  Bach’s harpsichords do not sound peaceful  but nerves….

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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