December 2010
6 posts
György Ligeti- Portrait (Un film de Michel Follin)
Happy Holidays!
with love,
Patrick
Claudio Monteverdi - Ch’i’...
“In the eleven years I knew him I always sensed more or less clearly that as an empircal person he was not entirely present, not entirely involved; it occasionally became apparent in moments of abstraction, which corresponded with the absent expression of his eyes. […] Berg’s empirical existence was subordinate to the primacy of creative work; he honed himself as its...
The Two Peters and Music
Peter Conrad is an Australian cultural critic/historian who writes with electrical verve and an almost frightening level of erudition. Clive James said it best: “Peter Conrad is just about as bright as a man can be without bursting into flames.” Conrad’s massive history of Modernism and 20th century art, Modern Times, Modern Places is by far the best book I’ve ever read...