Posted in Letter from Berlin, Memories, People, Reflections on Mar 3rd, 2010 9 Comments »
I wrote this same essay almost 10 years ago (here), but time has passed and it’s due for an update. I can’t think of a better time to do that than on his birthday — March 3, 2010. Paul and I met, as I said in that first essay, online in iLink Writers in the [...]
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 Letter from Berlin, Memories, Music, People on May 18th, 2008 No Comments »
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 Commonplace Book, Life and culture, Memories, People on Sep 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’d intended to write something quite different this time (in essence: about the almost innumerable subtly nuanced little psychological surprises and “gotchas!” directly connected with my recent naturalization as a German citizen), but into my lap this morning dropped this tasty tidbit of sexual esoterica – and who could possibly resist passing it on to [...]
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Memories, Politics, Reflections on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Two things during the past 24 hours have taken me on a backward stroll down my own personal German political Memory Lane. Last night a hard-hitting television documentary (from our classy tri-national German-language satellite network 3sat) took an exceptionally sharp look at the neuralgic issue of old Nazis in positions of power after the postwar establishment of [...]
Posted in Commonplace Book, Memories, People on Jun 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Excavated from June 4th (with me still struggling to whup this damned blog technology to the mat), this excerpt from my long-suffering, much put-upon father substitute Perry (a.k.a. St. Perry) Nelson: ” . . . I enjoyed reading these reminiscences of the times you spent with Rostropovich. Such an intimate portrait as emerges here provides [...]
Posted in Commonplace Book, Letter from Berlin, Life and culture, Memories, People, Reflections on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
During my San Francisco years (1982-95), “Time” once began its report on an election there with this sentence: “San Francisco is a tree-house for adult delinquents.” I believe that story reported the November 1982 election that listed one candidate for the city’s Board of Supervisors as Sister Boom-Boom, with the explanatory addendum one line lower [...]
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Memories on Jun 11th, 2007 7 Comments »
{I’ve exhumed this from fifteen years ago, written in San Francisco three years before I returned to Berlin, revived here especially for Christine von Grafenstein, who wrote so kindly about my experience a week ago when two homicidal crows divebombed Maxe the Dauntless Dachshund and me.} November 6, 1992 Misha My Love From the very [...]
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Memories, People on Jun 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
Berlin’s mercury stands at 88 degrees (F.) for the second of three forecast days, so I’ll make this little Sunday supplement short and (I hope) sweet. The almost innumerable reasons this wonderful Berlin has long since become my all-time favorite city in the entire world (after leisurely samplings of such other inferior burgs as New [...]
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