by phillipw | Mar 11, 2020 | ME, MU
Mendelssohn without the Strains of Music How plain and stultified is music on The printed page, but stiff black staves and straight Blocked measures have a graceful antiphon Of phrase marks and of oval notes. Collate These with the treble clef and bass clef to Obtain...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | AN, HE, LE, MU
Whistling in Koranic Wind “We will meet in the Paradise of free souls to which you will never have access.” ~ Antoine Leiris addressing the islamists who murdered his wife, Helène Muyal Helène Muyal A sentiment so lovely must be true. At least the part of us some...
by phillipw | Mar 10, 2020 | KI, MU
King’s Dreary The sky lies blue on top of still canals In Cambridge. Perpendicular, the thrust Of King’s attempts to leave the drear locales And gravity behind. The sound of trust Arises from the boys’ voices in The soaring chapel...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2020 | IN, MA, MU
Progressive Mathematics as Stanzas When poetry was mathematics back In distant, ancient India, the lines Were full of meanings that our poems lack Today. With sinuousity of vines Instead of straight or angled equals marks And long equations on the smoothed out...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2020 | MU
Pathetique, Movement Four, First Parts ….. Most beautiful is music which is sad. This music is most beautiful because It follows rules of longing, pain unclad By silk, or any of the convent laws Of stoicism, but, instead the codes In agony, and these invade...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | MO, MU
The 12 Ensemble in St James’s, Piccadilly, Twentieth-Century Music Like ghosts refusing to waver because They are in a church, strings abandon form. An eeriness gripped, disabused of laws, A tremoloed intensity, not warm By any means, gnashes, sails, gnaws and slides...
