Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
What’s wrong with Germany?
That’s the question I often get asked by my relatives and other locals who are puzzled by my peregrinations (left 28 years ago) and nationality changes (two). After all, it’s not a bad country. It has more than its fair share of culture; of great writers, composers, artists, photographers. It’s clean, people are reasonable, landscapes [...]
Filed under: 1980s, Childhood, Germany, Music, Youth | Closed
Tags: German language, German music, schlager, Yiddish
When I was happy #1
Someone (I think it was an Arab Emperor) once said that if you add up all the truly happy moments in your life you’ll find that they’ll add up to only a few hours. It seemed an accurate observation at the time when I read it. It also now has me making a list of [...]
Filed under: 2000s, Happiness, Music, Travel | Closed
Tags: Denver, Ethiopian music, happiness, sunrise, taxi
Lux Interior, three years
Filed under: 1980s, Music, The Cramps | Closed
Tags: anniversary, death, Lux Interior, The Cramps
The love that won’t shut up
29th of January 2012 is 13 years to the day when Robert Dickerson died, of liver failure caused by Hepatitis C. Having worked on a project for a new Hep C drug last year, and having talked to a lot of people with the disease, I now really understand what that means: brutal and miserable. [...]
Filed under: 2000s, Movies, Music | Closed
Tags: 2000, Benjamin, Hepatitis C, mortality, movie, Opal Foxx Quartet, Robert Dickerson, Smoke
The saddest song in the world
When I was still living in London, in a blitzed out, wistful little corner of Limehouse, I had an upstairs neighbor from Colombia. He was studying the shoemaking business at Cordwainers College so that he’d be able to support his father who owned a shoe factory. Most days he would be fairly quiet but occasionally [...]
Filed under: Music | Closed
Tags: 1990s, beauty, Cheo Marquetti, death, Henry Fiol, London, mortality, Oriente, Orlando Fiol, sadness, son montuno
Filed under: Music | Closed
Tags: Cathy Berberian, Folk Songs, I wonder as I wander, John Jacob Niles, Luciano Berio
Beauty we lost to the plague
I have not been able to listen to one of my favorite albums for many years, because it’s an LP and I no longer have a working turntable. It’s a recording of some of Alessandro Grandi‘s greatest liturgical work by the Accademia Monteverdiana, Trinity Boys’ Choir, directed by Denis Stevens, with tenors Edgar Fleet and [...]
Filed under: Music | Closed
Tags: Alessandro Grandi, Bergamo, Denis Stevens, Mark Deller, mortality, Music for San Marco San Georgio and Santa Maria Maggiore, O quam tu pulchra es, plague, salve Regina, Song of Songs
Strange love
I have somewhat of a hard time admitting this, and few people know this about me, but I love and have always loved The Cramps. I love them not as a musical connoisseur, but with pure puppy dog love. Given my advanced age, I have a hard time making sense of this. When Lux Interior [...]
Filed under: Music, The Cramps | Closed
Tags: death, Erick Purkhiser, Ivy Rorschach, love, Lux Interior, mortality, music scholarship, Poison Ivy, The Cramps, upset
Miserere my maker
My profession is to be aware of whatever is going on at the cutting edge of culture and media. Many of my contemporaries have blogs where they extol on the thrills and challenges of capitalizing on the latest movements in culture and society. Their blogs are cartes de visite on the exquisitness of their strategic [...]
Filed under: Music | Closed
Tags: Alessandro Grandi, Alfred Deller, countertenor, eros, Ich freue mich auf meinen Tod, Mexican radio, Miserere my Maker, mortality, O quam tu pulchra es, Paul Thek, Peter Hujar, sin, thanatos, transcendence
When I first started this blog I had decided that this would be a documentation of my journey into patternmaking. The kinds of patterns you need to make clothes. Because I like clothes, design and sewing. I had arrived at some kind of crossroads in my life where I decided to work less and make [...]
Filed under: Books, Childhood, Music, photography, Writers, Youth | Closed
Tags: connecting dots, patternmaking, seeing patterns
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