This is a charming piece by Ferdinando Carulli for classical guitar that I arranged in B Major. https://musescore.com/user/14413256/scores/5269508/embedAndante+by+Ferdinand+Carulli” by Howard Bosler Continue reading
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String Serenade Part 3
This is the third movement of the String Serenade. This will need polishing but I have other projects to do. I’m working on a painting, writing 3 new articles for my blogs, plus trying to get things organized for a house to remodel. In the middle of the month, I have eye surgery to replace … Continue reading
String Serenade, 2nd Movement
I have finished–completed for now–the second movement of this string quartet. The first movement was at a walking pace and this more toward a brisk jaunt, even though there is an adagio piece toward the end. The third movement, which will probably extend the work to over thirty minutes, will strictly be a sweeping adagio … Continue reading
String Serenade
I’m writing what is essentially a string quartet in three movements and have made a good start on the first movement which includes an Introduction (Largo) and a following Andante con Expressione. The second movement will be an Allegro, or maybe even a Presto and the third will be a sweeping Andante Cantabile or even … Continue reading
Song of Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song of Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 – 1882 Mine are the night and morning, The pits of air, the gulf of space, The sportive sun, the gibbous moon, The innumerable days. I hid in the solar glory, I am dumb in the pealing song, I rest on the pitch of the torrent, In … Continue reading
Lament by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lament Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892 – 1950 Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I’ll make you little jackets; I’ll make you little trousers From his old pants. There’ll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies … Continue reading
Consider Gerome’s The Death of Caesar and Vinchon’s Boissy d’Anglas
Comparison of paintings by Gerome and Vinchon. Continue reading
Sargent’s Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
All those things one hears about the painting methods and techniques of John Singer Sargent come to an excellent example in his Portrait of Mrs. Hugh Hammersley of 1892. Sargent can manage a tour de force of a painterly approach like very few other artists. Of course, it is said that he admired Velazquez … Continue reading
Some Comments About Line in Art
About the use of line to produce formal effects. Continue reading
New Stanzas
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace From Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997, by Allen Ginsberg I dreamed I dwelled in a homeless place Where I was lost alone Folk looked right through me into space And passed with eyes of stone O homeless hand on many a street Accept this change from me A … Continue reading
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