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Jerry Kern, The song is you (who share this birthday with Mozart)
You and Mozart share this day. Happy birthday, Jerry (and you too, Wolfgang). I know you liked Frankie's version of this song cicra 1942. . . Just listent to that last falsetto note.
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On the consolations of (very) old age
From "Out the Window" by Donald Hall in the New Yorker, January 23, 2012:<<<[My mother] died a month short of ninety-one. Her brain was still good. A week before she died, she read "My…
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“The Ambivalence of Being in Gluck’s The Triumph of Achilles” [by Caroline Malone]
Opening the box. Opening the book. Opening the self. What often initially emerges from opening is just what Pandora unwittingly released into the world: fear, ignorance, jealousy, and hatred. And just as often, agency…
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The Crazy Cat Lady [by Caroline Malone]
For Christmas, a good friend gave me a Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure. On the cover of the box in neon orange letters is stamped the question “How many cats do you have?” Five,…
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“Kind & hard & terrible & lovable.” Dwight Ripley at Tibor de Nagy Gallery by Douglas Crase
Dwight Ripley (c) 1962 Of all the glamorous figures present at the creation of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery — all those painters, poets, and lovers – none was more glamorous than Dwight Ripley.…
