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Archive: May, 2023
22 May 2023
Dina Koston, founder of the RSF, complained about neo-romantic music. The phrase I remember her using was “warmed-over Schumann”. But that was directed at other names, not at Del Tredici.
I was surprised to learn that she programmed the music of …
22 May 2023
Trickters Picaros and Del Tredici’s Herrick
Some picaresque resources
Access to the Picaresque, roughly from more probable to less probable —
Bugs Bunny
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Barry Lyndon
Gulliver’s Travels
Moll Flanders
The Reivers
Pynchon
Til …
22 May 2023
Thanks, Liz Thomson, co-founder and Director of The Village Trip, together with Cliff Pearson, for helping me clarify the provenance of Herrick’s Oratorio.
Fr. Graeme Napier, Rector of St. John’s in the Village, hoped to commission a mass …
