From the category archives:
I mentioned that our friend Julia Shin died last week. As you might imagine, her husband, Tiko (27), is devastated. One can be strong in such life drama for only so long. When my brother died, Daniel and I went to spend time with the family: just being with them, we figured, would be a [...]
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Christopher Stowens found this wonderful video of clips of the real Frida Kahlo. Worth watching.
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My brother Andy died this morning.
Andy had cancer when he was 17, and the radiation therapy that saved him in 1971, slowly took his life away over the last few years. He checked into a hospice in December. That act alone let us all know he was ready. Even when he was at the hospice, [...]
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My composers colleagues may remember the famous COMPOSERS IN RED SNEAKERS from Boston. (They are still in existence I hear.) One of the founding members was Christopher Stowens, famous for doing the taped introductions to the concerts. He left New England a few years back and is living happily in Oaxaca, Mexico. I can’t recommend [...]
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Every once in a while a magical correspondence happens. Sometime back, I posted a YouTube performance of Arnold Schoenberg conducting the first movement of his PIERROT LUNAIRE. The flutist on this recording was Leonard Posella. The other day I received this letter from his son, Nino, who gave me permission to reproduce his letter here.
Mr. [...]
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I just watched a life-changing video (for me, not necessarily for you): THE BALLAD OF RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT. Just as scientists posit the existence of celestial bodies, or elements, or forces in nature by their INFLUENCE on things around them, I have realized the amazing influence of Jack Elliott on both the musical world and [...]
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I’m flying up to San Francisco to celebrate our good friend and colleague Andrew Mogrelia’s 50th birthday. Andrew conducts internationally and is a professor of conducting at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. It will be fun to see all my SF friends again and it’s a great town to visit (my heart belong not [...]
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Our late friend Martin Nathan was classmates and old friends with Michael Crichton in Harvard Medical School and subsequently in Los Angeles. My partner at the time, Bruce Westland and I went to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with Marty and his partner Sam, and Michael and his wife and had a memorable time.
Marty and [...]
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I spent the weekend travelling to Andover, Massachusetts and visiting with my brother Andy (Andrew Rhodes Bourland), his wife Jeanne and her three daughters, and his three children of two marriages, two of the three wives, three dogs, and my husband. They have a fabulous home.
As we flew into Manchester, New Hampshire, out the [...]
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Later this month we will be having a little vacation before school begins with two dear friends whose portraits I share here.
Composer, Mark Carlson
Musicologist, Mitchell Morris
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