A beginning
Apr 23rd, 2007 by Perry
With this inaugural post Paul turns a corner in his life. He has written for many publications throughout his long and distinguished career, but now he begins a phase in which he publishes himself, and finally he has the good fortune of working with an editor with whom he is in complete and absolute agreement — himself.
4 Responses to “A beginning”
Thanks for the Rostapovitch article. Ann and I saw him conduct the SF Symphony a couple of years ago. His buoyant personality swept the stage as he plunged deep into the orchestra to hug and shake hands with musicians who had soloed well.
I look forward to more genuine Moor on the website.
RWC
Roz Bloch has been forwarding your communiques for a long time. They are invariably fresh, topical and nasty in a way I very much appreciate. Please don’t give up that form of communication.
I was first in Berlin in 1957, living in a youth hostel with the daughter of an Italian commissar. Her name was (and maybe is) Margharetta Repetto. I was not as in love with her as she liked It was explosive. But we did go through the Tor to experience the Berliner Ensemble, playing that night Furcht und elend in der dritte Reich. I understood little but the thrill was extreme. As was also being able to buy caviar from coin machines and John Steinbeck and Jack London in cheap editions.
It was as you mention a few years from the Berlin Wall. It was in fact, when I passed through another time, the beginning of the era of Sputnik. When I presented, nervously, my passport to an Ost guard, he waved me away, pointing upward: “Sputnik! Sputnik!” So proud!
A lot of that summer went into my first collection of stories, THE INNER GARDEN, published by Sun and Moon Press. Six novels later (I believe Roz has read some of them) I am again looking for an agent for the newest.
You might be interested in one of the stories, published by Penthouse around 1990, of an orchestra leader whose womanizing has left him bereft of feeling, so he engages his daughter to lead him to homosexual dalliance. It is a bitter-sweet tale, ever so wrong for Penthouse. Wny they took it is a mystery to this day.
Enough schmoozing. Thanks for the blog. I will be visiting often.
Sam Eisenstein
sameisenstein@hnotmail.com
Please forgive the tardiness of this response, Sam – but truth to tell, I still have MUCH to learn about bloggery. Meanwhile Roz & I have talked about you behind your back, for your name I knew in quite a different context, which Roz explained to me with details about you and your cousin. One phrase in your comment intrigued me: you called my reports Roz has relayed to you: “They are invariably fresh, topical and nasty in a way I very much appreciate.” Naturally I stumbled over that “nasty”; care to dilate a bit on that for me?
“Thanks for the blog”, you write. “I will be visiting often.” I’ll take you at your word, and accordingly look forward. Thanks to YOU for this introductory visit.
“sameisenstein@hnotmail.com” looks like a typo to me: don’t you mean plain old Hotmail…?
Thanks for your Rostropovich addendum, Robert – and please bear with my sluggishness in responding: I still have to feel my way through this totally unfamiliar blogging routine: at the moment, even as I type, thanks to Skype I have my Knoxville TN blog-guru Perry “the All-Knowing” Nelson on the horn, doing his damnedest to prevent my making even more of a fool of myself.