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You Choose: Two Versions of “Autumn Song” [by W. H. Auden]
Now the leaves are falling fast,Nurse's flowers will not last,Nurses to their graves are gone,But the prams go rolling on. Whispering neighbours left and rightDaunt us from our true delight,Able hands are forced to…
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Louis Armstrong in 1934 & in Australia c. 1956 & on the Edsel Show
"I Cover the Waterfront" . . Now you has jazz. . . with Crosby & Sinatra & Rosemary Clooney: On the Sunny Side of the Street
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An Introduction to Martin Johnston (Part 2) [by Thomas Moody]
Martin Johnston died in June 1990 at the age of forty-two having published three books of poetry: Shadowmass; The Sea-Cucumber; and The Typewriter Considered a Bee-Trap; a novel, Cicada Gambit; and a collection of translations of Greek Poems, Ithaka. His short…
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Berlioz & the music in “The Shining”
From Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," the music in "The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick:
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Sixteen): Elaine Equi [by Angela Ball]
FOR YEARS, I SUFFERED FROM A STRANGE MELODY I couldn’t knit thistles into sweaters for swans,nor spin straw into gold records. I didn’t have a gingersnap or bluebird to my name. The oven overheard…
