Tuesday, January 08, 2019
4:30 AM NY Philharmonic TV JAN 1
Repeating a program of moderate rousers.
Just right...having not caroused.
Can you get music to act for you?
Better than nothing.
People are always saying
Gotta get motivated!
Doesn’t that just, like,
come along?
Labels: classical music, inspiration, motivation, Music, New Year
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Round and Round
the Classical Sound
leaks classical gas.
So the young clamp
campified masks.
This bizarre dichotomy
scandalizes aficionados
till it becomes
the new normal
which then goes...
the Classical Sound
leaks classical gas.
So the young clamp
campified masks.
This bizarre dichotomy
scandalizes aficionados
till it becomes
the new normal
which then goes...
Labels: camp, classical music
Friday, August 13, 2010
Tchaikovsky
Was Peter Ilyich
a sexy sonofabitch?
Cashing in his chips
to mask a fatally queer mess?
Or did he swig–-more likely--
polluted water? Oh well, booze
and nicotine and compulsive
wandering rip in. Plus what is
noted depression today. And,
oh yeah, he wrote music
that one critic quipped
held stink you can hear.
That latter more often closer
to roses--and applause. So, on
balance, a surpassing romantic
composer. As for all the rest,
who has a skin thick enough?
God rest him
all road ever
he offended.
Labels: classical music, music critic, queer, romantic, Tchaikovsky
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Riffs
As you age you dismiss
cagey riffs, everywhere
fatigued. Take music.
As classical stations pitch
frosted chestnuts, pop ones dish
new "arrangements" wrench-
ing banal to pompous. Forget
jazz, so ingrown, layered, solo-
ist proving the melody: him.
And nobody’s that interesting.
Labels: classical music, jazz, pop, riff
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Young Classical Musician
-B Flat is interesting there, Mr__, though not what Mozart wrote.
-Should have.
-Well, I'll discuss it in heaven with him. In the meantime...
-let's pretend to live while dying.
-I'm sorry?
-I said my apologies, Maestro. Please continue.
-With your permission.
Labels: classical music, Maestro, Mozart, young musician
