Music of Chance: 1990
My previous reviews of Paul Auster HERE
When I read this book, my thoughts as aide memoire will appear in the comment stream below…
Music of Chance: 1990
My previous reviews of Paul Auster HERE
When I read this book, my thoughts as aide memoire will appear in the comment stream below…
…but these three were my favourites from when I was doing so:-
It was a good journey. I learnt a lot, felt a lot, and the experience has assisted in my changing the way I look at things when I take real Nonscenic photographs. I also trust the individual ‘AI shifting collages’ I triggered for all the individual authors were similarly experienced by the authors — based on my gestalt real-time reviews of their work as such collages were.
University of Essex Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Conductor Ben Vonberg-Clark, May 4th 2024
Yesterday, I was privileged to be taken to Snape Maltings in nearby Suffolk to experience Bach’s St John Passion. Details in photographs (please click to enlarge).
I have long appreciated the opening of this work, and I have, in my own eccentric way, claimed it as an inspiration for Philip Glass operas and some of his other music. But now I recognise its true power, where, yesterday evening, the entry of the chorus was body- and mind-tingling to the nth degree, even spiritual in a frighteningly awesome and sublime moment in time. And from that point onward, I was captivated. Even more so than earlier experiencing this choir and orchestra’s performance of the Mass in B Minor at Snape which I had thought, till now, to be the greater Bach work. The rest of the St John Passion that I had before felt to contain too much recitative and continuo for my tastes, became now, for me, more intimate than some great chamber music, the cello in particular with mesmeric minimalism. The woodwind, too. The chorus continued its adept harnessing of an exciting energy. Overcoming the work’s difficulties with a faultless passion, to my innocent ears. All the vocal soloists seemed individually inspired, reaching out to the packed auditorium without diminishing the chamber intimacy. I was simply bowled over.
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Eibonvale Press 2024
Just received WHAT THE GIANTS WERE SAYING by David Rix, having purchased it from the publisher’s website. Can any look of a book stagger one more? Rhetorical question.
Please see first comment below with what is revealed under the dustjacket.
My previous reviews of this author: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/david-rix/ and of this publisher https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/eibonvale-press/
ARTWORK by David Rix
NEMONYMOUS NIGHT
Eibonvale Press 2024
Very sad to hear today by chance that Paul Auster has died. RIP.
I am really only fully discovering him in recent months with my real-time reviews of New York Trilogy and Oracle Night, following my marathon review of 4321 a few years ago.
Reviews here:
I’m watching, on Amazon Prime, using quality earphones, as I speak, the 1982 film KOYAANISQATSI with music by PHILIP GLASS and it is just as sublime as I remember it in the cinema,, even more so, especially as I am now watching it with New Nonscenic eyes (https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/2024/04/18/some-favourite-nanosecond-photos/)
My photo above of the TV screen at the precise segue from one scene of Koyaanisqatsi to another, showing at least three elbows ‘fading’ into something else!
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