El Paso: Afternoon Keys

Esparza brothers, Organ Symposium, El Paso, Texas. September 2016.

September 2016.

While I miss dearly the always-accessible joie de vivre of the zydeco, cajun, and creole music of South Louisiana, I'm learning the nature of El Paso's music scene.

There is a wide and deep river of classical music here.

Organ Symposium, El Paso, Texas. September 2016.

One example of this was the Organ Symposium I attended one Sunday afternoon at Western Hills United Methodist Church on El Paso's west side.

Organ Symposium, El Paso, Texas. September 2016.

The musicians included children and adults, and both an organ and a piano.

Below is Ryan Esparza playing a piece by Liszt:

And below a turn with Mendelssohn by John Esparza:

Here is an endearing story played out by a father and sleepy daughter while Dennis Margheim performs a work:

Allowing fine classical music to wash over one's spongy brain is a not-bad way to pass a Sunday afternoon.