Marc Chagall, Yellow House, 1924

'Natalie Dower.' (1958) Where his friends and admirers Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach acquired international reputations, Patrick George was, for much of his career, known principally as a teacher after almost 40 years at the Slade, he retired as professor of fine art and

I’m back in New York - just in time for confusing Fall birding 😵‍💫 Based on the strong eye ring, I’m calling this a least flycatcher at Central Park’s Sparrow Rock on Monday. #birdcpp #leastflycatcher

just (finally) transcribed that offbeat 4/4 sax line in 5/4 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE theme that's caught my ear for 40 years. Yeah Lalo

"In the late forties I found out by experiment (I went into the anechoic chamber) that silence is not acoustic. It is a change of mind, a turning around. I devoted my music to it. My work became an exploration of non-intention." Happy Birthday John Cage born September 5, 1912

'There would be this schwung, an irresistible swing to what [S] did, as though he were twirling you around in a dance… The emphasis was that beats were never downward... they were upward springs that would spring you on to the next beat.' Leon Fleisher, pupil of Artur Schnabel

(49) Amy Beach: "Ah, Love, but a day!" (Ellen Kazis, soprano; Virginia Eskin, piano) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=d3FkjH…

(49) Last Letter Home, by Lee Hoiby - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=KpgjFP…

George Gardner, photo undr

excerpt "A Girl" The tree has entered my hands, The sap has ascended my arms, The tree has grown in my breast - Downward, The branches grow out of me, like arms. A child - so high - you are, And all this is folly to the world. -Ezra Pound drawing by Wyndham Lewis

'And if when I wrote I used only a few words it was because time always seemed to me short as though it could be stripped away at any moment.' —Louise Glück, from “Memoir,” in The Seven Ages *** linktr. ee /tatlondon

(49) Walt Whitman: 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=eBm65n…

Three in Brooklyn Heights

Cambodian dancer seated 1906 by Auguste Rodin (Couleurs)

(49) Telling The Truth - Wild Strawberries (1957) - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=Yie2j2…

(49) Tchaikovsky / Erica Morini, 1957: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 - (2, 3) - Artur Rodzinski - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=VLLlo7…

Remembering the great Horace Silver who was born this week in 1928. Silver was a pre-eminent founder of what became known as hard bop or soul jazz, an extension of bebop, with elements of rhythm and blues, gospel, and Latin-American music added. His piano style, terse,

a hot autumn sun warming my face feeling a cool breeze Basho

(50) Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37 - Beth Levin piano - 2017 - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=awd_h_…