School started with a bang at UCLA.
The first day featured a faculty strike, with students and staff encouraged to join in. Robert Winter put it succinctly: “I’ve waited for 25 years to teach this class; you think I’m gonna strike?” — this referring to our new first year core course offered for the first time. [...]
In our recent trip to London, Paris and the south of France, we left our Pre’s home having only a 1st generation iPhone to text and use Google maps. I missed my Pre a lot. I loved the iPhone for the first two years, but as Joni Mitchell says, “you don’t know what you’ve got [...]
Daniel was our primary driver for most of our vacation. One night after a fabulous dinner in Avignon, I agreed to drive home. It was a new route, a bit longer, but had highways with less rotaries to go through. The night was pitch black. It was a bit stressful as we kept seeing signs [...]
e was called “Leon” not “Leo” or “Leonard.” I made this clear with Pete and Deb who are debating calling their son “Leo” extolling my preference for “Leon” as in “Leon Kirchner” who died today.
Leon was my teacher at Harvard between 1978 and 1983. I remember fondly our coffee breaks between classes; the composition seminar [...]
We were missing some items from the hypermarché on a Sunday night, but found one about to close called “Le Vide a Bo.” The grocer had everything we needed and I was able to successfully converse in French. But as Jenny and I left, I turned to let him know that my nickname was “Bo” [...]
Living in Los Angeles, one doesn’t get to see really old buildings. It was a joy to learn that we would be staying in a little settlement, rebuilt from Roman ruins. As I mentioned yesterday, we vacationed in the south of France, technically, the Languedoc-Roussillon region in a little area called Suzon, which is part [...]
I’m just back from a fabulous two and a half week vacation with my husband, his colleague, Matias, and Jenny, Matias’s wife. Jenny left young Katie with her Mom, so this was their first time alone–a kind of second honeymoon, avec Roger and Daniel.
We flew to Paris, then took the TGV to London–Daniel’s and my [...]
PERSONAE (1981)
1. Jackson Pollock:The War Goddess mp3Jules Eskin, cello,Edwin Barker, bass[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PERSONAE (1981)
2. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn: St Peter in Prison mp3Jules Eskin, cello,Edwin Barker, bass[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PERSONAE (1981)
3. Rene Magritte: The Reckless Sleeper mp3Jules Eskin, cello,Edwin Barker, bass[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PERSONAE (1981)
4. [...]
ARIAS for cello and piano (1989)
1. Cl’airea mp3Ronald Leonard, cello, Antoinette Perry, piano. This movement written for the wedding of Paul Reale and Claire Rydell.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
ARIAS for cello and piano
2. Mount Shasta mp3Dedicated to the memory of Charlie Swigart.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
ARIAS for cello and piano
3. In [...]
I seem to have been obsessed with lumping sets of four movements or songs in most of the music from this period. Like Four Painters, this piece paints musical portraits of four poets. The process of trying to figure out how to express the musical persona of a particular poet is a mysterious one but [...]
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