Here is a new trailer for the newly restored RULES OF THE GAME by Jean Renoir. The film is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Why did it take me so long to find this? Robert Altman states: “The Rules of the Game” taught me the rules of the game. If you’ve not seen it, do. (It is […]
I watched this video a few days ago, and it hooked me. Granted, it’s a strange song, but Loretta sings it with conviction.
Now here is a fairy picture I can get behind. It’s a piece called ENVY by artist, illustrator, designer, and blogger Christopher Cox. His own website, Change The Thought is full featured and his work is provoking, striking, magical, raw, and brilliant. His clients have included McDonalds, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Meat Loaf, Black Sabbath, […]
I’m am up for a big promotion at UCLA: it’s called Professor with Great Distinction, or, on the academic ladder it’s called Professor Step VI, where one must show evidence of national and/or international reputation. I received a letter from the ad hoc committee that evaluated my career. It was a “This Is Your Life” […]
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Rufus is writing words for a new aria at his desk in a chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland. He looks up and out the window at the amazing view. So far away from New York, and London and Paris. Deep breath. But he’s stuck on a word. “What rhymes with ‘choose it’? lose it, moose […]
String Quartet No.1, “Four Poets” (2006)
1. Ezra Pound
2. Friederich Schiller
3. James Merrill
4. William Carlos Williams
Performed by Ives Quartet
Bettina Mussumeli, violin
Susan Freier, violin
Scott Woolweaver, viola
Stephen Harrison, cello
Recorded by Bob Schumaker
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Program notes
Of late I have found musical portraits stimulating to my compositional flow. I have a piano quartet called “Four Painters” and collections of songs in […]
What a find! The original “Popcorn.” For once, the YouTube notes give a fair amount of information.
Gershon Kingsley’s “Popcorn ” is one of the world’s most recognizable tunes–not bad going for a man who penned the track in two minutes! It was recorded in 1969 for Kingsley’s solo album “Music To Moog By” which saw […]
Most of us have heard that Richard Wagner was antisemitic and was one of Hitler’s mentors for his own antisemitic scheme, but I for one had never actually read anything he actually said or wrote. This is not the thing music history classes teach–or at least the ones I took. I stumbled across this quote […]
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