About

Hello, my name is Zoë Holbrook and I am a classical guitarist and composer. I started this blog with the intention of it acting as a sort of diary for my thoughts on pieces as well as other random music-related things that I happen to find. On this site I will review concerts, not only of guitar, as well as classical pieces that I find and analyze passages in works ranging from Bach to Stravinsky that I find interesting. My goal is to spread the love of classical music that I hold because I truly believe it to be one of the most incredible gifts a human being can give to the world.

Famous english composer Benjamin Britten once said that “It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

I love this quote because I have never found a more accurate description of the many sides of music. Music isn’t just about beautiful sounds, it’s about the beauty in all things human. It reflects the beauty in pain just as much as it does the beauty in triumph or love, and sometimes they can even go hand-in-hand. A piece doesn’t have to be beautiful to make you feel something, but it does have to have raw and powerful emotions to make you ache with a need to uncover what lies hidden inside the music. I hope to uncover pieces of that puzzle.