I really like your analogy Kay of a walk through the woods / keeping those tunes under one’s fingers.
I lost a lot of my repertoire a few years ago due to personal reasons (combination of slight depression upon getting divorced, then travelling with my fiddle–but my fiddle repertoire flourished during that time!)
I’m looking around for a small landscape of a well trampled path so I can give myself a nonverbal reinforcement of Kay’s terrific imagery every time I sit down to practice.
I’ve been working on Scheherezade for about six months and I would consider it just now “listenable”. I would not play it as a performance yet. I do love it.
In case any of you want to learn “Minstrel’s Adieu” for lever harp, CC emailed me to let me know that it can be ordered through a music publisher out of the UK:
Salzedos Rumba, Tango, and # IV of his Preludes InTimes and one other one that for the life of me, I just can’t think of right now. . . La, la, la . . . if I only had a brain . . .
Dear Jerusha, I have nothing on my stand, I lost everything the harps my scores and even the stands. Bt had before Boildieu concert, variations Mchedelov, la source Zabel,Handel concerto .