Archive for the ‘music’ Category
Fanfare for the common man
‘A warm…soft—warm, soft sound without any sawtuhf effuht. Sawtuhfa warm clarinet sound…’ Aaron Copland rehearses the London Symphony Orchestra—1969, his ‘Appalachian Spring.’ Twenty-five years earlier he had scored it for Martha Graham, and he still referred the musicians today to the passage work: ‘Remembah, she would be dancing here.’ Passages he didn’t want these musicians—some [...]
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Wafting / cinquain
Wafting Dreamlike music: Blending, cloud-like, enters. Excruciatingly purple. Soprano. photo: Philipp Klinger
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Pat Metheny riffs
The preacher said on Easter during his sermon that I had been “mega-possessed.” He didn’t say so exactly, but he reminded us that Jesus had cast out “seven demons” from Mary Magdalene, and the number seven when used like that in ancient Semitic times meant “mega” or “super.” She was big-time possessed, and the Lovely [...]
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Whiffenpoofs on TV
In order to stay up past bedtime, the Lovely K and her sisters would entreat her mother to expound on family history. “Oh, mom…” they would bleat, “was Aunt Sarah the sister of Charles or of Melvin?” They cared not for the correct answer, but it gave them an extra ten minutes of playtime while [...]
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As the B-52s punch their words into my inner ear, “down, down, down…skedubidub…hrrrrr…ahhh..ahhhahhh…Rock Lobstah!” I recall a few minutes ago when a 20-something guy with a crew cut, backpack, and wild look in his eyes walks into the Starbucks on 76th and Columbus where I’m doing my evening news catch-up, drinking the requisite decaf, checking out [...]
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