“When the Santa Fe Opera commissioned The Letter in November of 2006, I’d never written a stage work of any kind (except for an unperformed play that rests at the bottom of a desk drawer, where it belongs). Instead, I had spent my career practicing a form of literary endeavor that most artists hold in contempt…”
Archives for July 1, 2009
TT: Snapshot
Benno Moiseiwitsch plays the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto in 1944, accompanied by Constant Lambert and the London Philharmonic:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
TT: Almanac
“What makes a poet is, surely, the love of these things, a desperate search for the tiny ray of sunshine which used to flicker on the floor of a child’s bedroom.”
François Mauriac, Questions of Precedence