The Pandemic Lens^®

In keeping with the state of the country and the world, I’m encouraging myself to access existential angst. I believe that this new four-part composition has the dystopian ambience I need to inhabit lately. Stanley Sagov · PseudoSymphonics for dystopian fans in 2022 Copyright © 2022 Stanley Sagov Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual…

Stills reeling with the confluence of crises and global polarization and today it came out sounding like … this: Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual life as a physician (Family Practice Group, The Sagov Center for Family Medicine) and jazz pianist/composer. He is the leader of Remembering The Future Jazz Band, a bunch of…

At this stage of the pandemic we need to accept and be graceful and kind as we are living  with vagueness, ambiguity and hope for resolution. This piece is responsive to that plight.   Copyright © 2021 Stanley Sagov Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual life as a physician (Family Practice Group, The Sagov…

Here’s my reflections on experiences during this pandemic. They include memories of the piece I wrote and recorded as a teenager in South Africa. Today, in my 78th year, I was moved to recreate that music. I’m still searching and finding….     Copyright © 2021 Stanley Sagov Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual…

So today I am sending myself and any listeners an optimistic expression of optimism as we’re poised to enter a post vaccine pandemic phase. Can spring be  far away???   Copyright © 2021 Stanley Sagov Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual life as a physician (Family Practice Group, The Sagov Center for Family Medicine)…

Brilliant original musicians (Miles Davis and Bill Evans ) serve as a today’s daily refuge and inspiration for this musician playing by himself during the pandemic.     Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual life as a physician (Family Practice Group, The Sagov Center for Family Medicine) and jazz pianist/composer. He is the leader…

The blues is about acknowledging challenges and hardship and also expresses the momentum to complain and go on keeping on….Even to have fierce propulsive joy as we deal with the confluence of turbulence in our world.     Copyright © 2021 Stanley Sagov   Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual life as a physician…

Sometimes I love to express the nostalgia and mixed feelings about being surprised and unaware. And these times certainly are filled with elements of surprise and opportunities for nostalgia.     Copyright © 2021 Stanley Sagov Stanley SagovStanley Sagov leads an intense dual life as a physician (Family Practice Group, The Sagov Center for Family…

Release. Allow escape from confinement; set free. To quote Indian novelist Arundhati Roy in her article “The Pandemic is a Portal”:   “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew…We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data…

Concerts and gigs during the Covid-19 pandemic? Well, for most of us small-time musicians, life sort of came to a halt in the spring of 2020. Studio production could continue, online concerts could take place, and it has been a time for exploring our direction and compositional skills. However, the live music landscape had changed…