Jottings
We see comprehension and we see incomprehension. We love the former and are impatient with the latter. However, give incomprehension the time and space to ripen into something interesting. ///// Death: Mastering the trope …
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Nature and Custom
21st Century Harmonic Thinking I think of the 3rd structural key as the one the composer elects, while the 2nd structural key (dominant) is "natural", because it is found on every time scale including the smallest--the …
The Captor's Image, by Basil Dufallo
In Mr. Dufallo's book we see how colonialism creates coherence in what was polyglot. Greek culture was a great mishmash of its own colonial movements. The Roman conquest of Greece created the coherence of Greek art as we …
Unexpected Reunion
Read in German Unverhofftes Wiedersehen/Unexpected Reunion William Anderson's musical treatment of the story by Johann Peter Hebel adapted by the composer from the translation by John Hibberd ------"The most wonderful …
More Wagnerian Eros & Thanatos
Read in German We're following up on the discussion of Unferhofftes Wiedersehen/Unexpected Reunion here with another short, short and closely related story, Greifensee, by Robert Walser. While there is nothing so …
The Story of the Cuban Dancers
I was the on-stage guitarist, with an interesting group of Cuban Dancers in Miami. Choreography by Josee Garante