Category: a la recherche…
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Ragas at twilight…
And now Ravi Shankar! another great who was at it right up to the end… “The beauty of our music is the ability to improvise endlessly,” he once said, “and that is my forte – I never know what I am going to do in the next two seconds, and that is still a great…
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Curve-alicious…
Saddened but somehow, oddly, uplifted this week by Oscar Neimeyer’s passing… I seem to be surrounded by death at the moment… 104! and what a legacy… working until almost the end and such fantastic architecture… “When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution,” he said. “I once wrote a poem…
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Time out…
The news of Brubeck’s death yesterday and copious postings of Take 5 on Facebook had me hurtling down the long and winding road of memory, back to the very early 80s… to happy days of youth, rebellion and innocence… To carefree spring days where we skipped school and hung out in the town square, before…