The Diva’s Wardrobe
yuja the goddess—
being both outrageously intelligent and outrageously beautiful,
or being either,
or worse, being neither
If, on a winter’s night
Two Franzes:
Franz Schubert & Franz Kafka
When monstrosity meets poeticism
Everything everywhere all at once:
Prokofiev second piano concerto op. 16
The Banishment of the Poetess
guarded vulnerability:
brahms’ b-flat concerto
Maybe music remembers…
In Mourning of Ugorskaja and Ugorski
The Expression of Deception
A voice rises from non-existence to fullness (— and then back):
Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique
The Voice of the Dead
Requiem for all souls
(mozart’s)
The Microclimate of Music
What is it like to be an exorcist?
Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής
The Nichols Arboretum
the one and only nichols Arb
“I’m no mental midget”
My son—the mental patient
—livia soprano
“The Whale”
Can we save each another?
“Roter Himmel”
Afire
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
The Beginning of Shostakovich’s Nightmarish Relationship with Stalin
The Faust Analogy
Want to make a deal with the devil?
liszt’s piano sonata
“The House of Wittgenstein”
Wien Before And Way Before
Emotion & Music
Who is afraid of the philosophy of emotion?
I Speak
“Remember me, but forget my fate.”
“To Reach The Star”
franz schubert: Being Gay In the 19th Century
Sleep no more
Shanghai the sham city
Brahms No More
A Tale of Imposter Syndrome