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21 May 2007 – North Truro, MA
Monday, 21 May 2007, 8:46 am, North Truro, MA A leisurely day in which I made my way through deliberations that arose more prominently during the trip to Ottawa; and so during the day I restructured my...
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28-30 June 1997 – Penal Memoirs, Community Centre Seminars, Rain & Sunshine
Saturday, 28 June 1997, 10:05 am, Vancouver, BC Began discussions yesterday with the West End Community Centre regarding program offerings in the Winter session. Had a telephone call from one R.B., an...
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8 July 1997 – Telemann, Schubert, Maugham
Tuesday, 8 July 1997, 10:42 am, Vancouver, BC Yesterday I analyzed the components of the three seminars for the West End Community Centre winter session, and scheduled these. This went more quickly...
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Music – 52 Works Recently Studied
Paganini, Niccolò: Il Carnevale de Venezia, Op. 10 (ca. 1835). An inviting set of variations suitable to terrorize any violinist. Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 8 in c, Op. 110 (1960). - The...
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A Sharp Note on Musical Biography
While re-reading, after an interval of some years, the translation of Igor Stravinsky’s 1939-40 Charles Eliot Norton Lecture (Poetics of Music), delivered at Harvard, in French, I returned to Maurice...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo and Iphigénie en Aulide
I am rediscovering Gluck by way of Aeschylus and Toscanini. The Dance of the Furies, from Orfeo, is a remarkable musical depiction of the harriers, and has some interesting contours; for example, the...
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Caravaggio’s Dagger – The Pivot of the Book
I will be a featured reader at the Glass Door, the Mill Woods Artists’ Collective, 27 March, 7 pm, 6120 – 28th Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, and will read this pivotal sequence of five poems that...
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21 May 2007 – North Truro, MA
Monday, 21 May 2007, 8:46 am, North Truro, MA A leisurely day in which I made my way through deliberations that arose more prominently during the trip to Ottawa; and so during the day I restructured my...
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28-30 June 1997 – Penal Memoirs, Community Centre Seminars, Rain & Sunshine
Saturday, 28 June 1997, 10:05 am, Vancouver, BC Began discussions yesterday with the West End Community Centre regarding program offerings in the Winter session. Had a telephone call from one R.B., an...
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Edward Elgar – Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 – The Eloquent Emptiness of...
I have a small, special place in my heart for the music of Edward Elgar. His sentiments of the place and the people surrounding and inspiring him seem so much like my own, and I am particularly keen on...
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Music – Archive of Comments
Adam, Adolphe: Giselle (1841). The CulturalRites article is here. Bliss, Arthur, arr. Adriano: Suite from Christopher Columbus (1949). – Not a voyage I will repeat. Bliss, Arthur: Excerpts, from Men of...
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Beethoven – Symphony 7 in A, Op. 92 (1812)
The November, 1951, Carnegie Hall recording by Arturo Toscanini: Still unparalleled in bringing out the power, violence, the remarkable modulations through semitonal shifts of single notes, and...
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North Truro, Massachusetts
Monday, 21 May 2007, 8:46 am, North Truro, MA A leisurely day in which I made my way through deliberations that arose more prominently during the trip to Ottawa; and so during the day I restructured my...
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