A visit with my grandfather, the eminent Weimer-era modernist émigré composer Ernst Toch: not entirely forgotten, in fact just maybe even increasingly well-remembered...
Wow, Ren. You don’t have the music gene, but he certainly had the literary gene. The bit about helping the music to build its own compartment for itself (same basic advice I give to people looking at strange pictures)… the irrational, unconquerable bastion, untouched… and what a title THE SHAPING FORCES IN MUSIC is. Also, there needs to be some cool downtown string quartet of Juilliard drop outs called EATS RAW MEAT.
September 1, 2022 : Issue #24
Wow, Ren. You don’t have the music gene, but he certainly had the literary gene. The bit about helping the music to build its own compartment for itself (same basic advice I give to people looking at strange pictures)… the irrational, unconquerable bastion, untouched… and what a title THE SHAPING FORCES IN MUSIC is. Also, there needs to be some cool downtown string quartet of Juilliard drop outs called EATS RAW MEAT.