Posted in Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Memories, Reflections on Oct 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
From all I know about Paul, I believe he might have posted this if he were able to do so. Soundscapes – by Ace Norton from IE HAGY on Vimeo. My most recent conversations with him indicate that he is doing as well as can be expected, but his stroke, coupled with his apparently approaching [...]
Posted in Health, Life and culture, Memory Lane on Oct 13th, 2009 1 Comment »
I have just spoken with Paul and asked him if he were getting any exercise. He said, almost none. I also asked if he agreed with me that it was probably not wise for him to go out to exercise alone, given his tendency to have spells of dizziness and falling. He said that he [...]
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Memory Lane on Aug 1st, 2009 No Comments »
The other day when Paul and I were talking, I mentioned that I had heard this piece on NPR by Robert Krulwich about the fact that crows apparently can recognize and remember people’s faces and then evidently seek them out for particular scorn. As we talked I reminded him that he had written about an [...]
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Politics on Nov 19th, 2008 No Comments »
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Posted in Commonplace Book, Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, People, Reflections on Jan 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
Culinary possibilities have enormously improved since I originally arrived in Munich (directly from two years in Paris yet) 56 years ago last fall. During my five Munich years my frustrated gourmet’s heart leapt up when the Guide Michelin itself, which I’ve sometimes thought of as perhaps the only incorruptible institution in la douce France, began [...]
Posted in Life and culture, Memories, Memory Lane, Music, People on Dec 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
[This afternoon at the Komische Oper zu Berlin, the American baritone Kevin Deas sang this captivating little song Aaron Copland adapted as one of his "Old American Songs", and when I got home I emailed him this addendum:] Dear Mr. Deas, as Berlin correspondent for www.MusicalAmerica.com I attended – and enjoyed – your concert this [...]
Posted in Life and culture, Memory Lane, Music, People on Dec 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
[From my hard disk I've excavated some Stockhauseniana I put together in 1998, which has definitely not lost its relevance to this inordinately intricate personality:] Although Karlheinz Stockhausen at 70 has probably become globally the most famous living German composer (his only rival: Hans Werner Henze), comparatively few people actually know his music. During the [...]
Posted in Life and culture, Memory Lane, Music, People on Dec 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Howard Pollack’s 690-page biography Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man documents in some detail (the index cites me seven times) one of my life’s most enriching friendships with that almost saintly man, which began soon after I emerged from the University of Texas at 19 as a brand-new Bachelor Musicae and [...]
Posted in Life and culture, Memory Lane, Music, People on Nov 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Young Mailer’s first novel The Naked and the Dead turned him into an overnight celebrity but it appeared early enough for its publisher to have serious problems with a pungent monosyllable that peppered the manuscript. Mailer had written naturalistically about the robust young Americans in uniform he’d known during World War II, and for him [...]
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