Tag Archives: Vladimir Horowitz

don’t let the sun go down on them

Do only the good die young? Should we trust anyone over thirty? There was always Rimbaud, the brilliant prodigy, the romantic who was simply pining to be able to fall on his sword. And Keats and Byron who could not … Continue reading

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go back to your woods

Resurrection. Understanding the past as a key to unlock the future. The relationship of the individual to nature.  All kinds of themes are present here in Chuck Leavell paying homage to the piano blues artists going back to the 1920’s … Continue reading

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celebrity contagion :thirty two short momentos by glenn gould

The fetish object. The continuous restlessness of meaning. Unresolved tension through which the commodity is continually fetishized, de-fetishized and reproduced to look like the old; warts, scratches, scuffs and all. A reanimation that represents a highlighting of utopian longings dating … Continue reading

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the foe of the metronome: Does the right hand not know…

… what the left hand is doing?  Chopin, his life though it was marked by illness, was nonetheless, a success. His life brilliant and brief was much like his masterpieces for the piano. Masterpieces cloaked in the enigma  of his … Continue reading

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SYMPHONIC BIOGRAPHY & ALGORITHMS OF DISTRESS

Call it the revolution of the cyborg symphonies. Its algorithmic composition. As Duke Ellington said, ”It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing”, but the digital world is getting very close.  ”Cope has been writing software to … Continue reading

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