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.
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.