Collected Writings
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.
Wallace Stevens
new year
When I say "have a wonderful new year", I mean I want you to find yourself full of wonder, amazed by the beauty of the world around you, by the love of those you keep close, by the power of the music you make, allowing yourself to be forever changed …
Read morecircularity
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. - T.S. Eliot
Read morePhaedrus (Tippett)
Socrates says in the Phaedrus: There is a third form of possession or madness, of which the Muses are the source. This seizes a tender, virgin soul and stimulates it to rapt passionate expression, especially in lyric poetry. But if any man comes to the gates of poetry without the …
Read moreThe Unread: Mark Medley
Mark Medley Dec 9, 2011 The National Post Recently, I began to read Moby-Dick for the first time. I was inspired to take Melville’s 1851 classic novel off the shelf, in part, by the fact that three related books had come across my desk in short succession: Chad Harbach’s …
Read moreRob Giampietro (from Sophie)
Rob Giampietro on Design, Writing, and Pedagogy: Justin Kropp’s interview with Project Projects principal, Rob Giampietro, who gives insight into the graphic design process and the evolution of the discipline. Giampietro concludes with a series of advice for those just starting to build a studio; tips that can in the …
Read moreZeami, student-actor’s progression
“There is a principle that ‘at each level of accomplishment, there are new levels of fresh experience that the actor must encounter for the first time, as though he were a beginner, and then never forget.’ This means that, for the actor, from his beginnings through the height of his …
Read moreThe Peggy Glanville Hicks Address
Simone Young (The Australian, August 6, 2010) Peggy Glanville Hicks Address (edited version). August 2, 2010 Sydney. Questions are regularly raised as to the relevance of classical music, or the classical arts in general, in an age where statements of policy, intention, emotion, commitment or criticism are reduced to a …
Read moreto transfigure the everday
Truth is some sort of an absolute. If we begin to tell lies for any cause, however good, we hurt ourselves, whether we know it or not. Beauty is another absolute. When we let the common level of our social link sink away too far from the beautiful and the …
Read moreA composer’s point of view – Michael Tippett
As a musician my sharpest sense is that of sound. I cannot help listening to things. Living as I do in the country, I notice every year when the nightingales have begun to sing again in the wood down the road. They sing, of course, in the daytime but I …
Read morethe lone owl
3 am .....still....bright..... a lone consciousness; the lone owl calling.....calling.
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