ROMEO AND JUILLIARD a tragedy in 5 acts DRAMATIS PERSONAE Romeo, an entering freshman cellist of aspect fair and true; The Juilliard School, the redoubted music institution; Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, an Italian violinist, also a freshman; The Ghost of Dorothy DeLay; Candy, a ballerina of slender build and slenderer intellect; Mary, Queen of PreCollege; Igor […]
3 am Prussia Cove, I am sitting in the candlelit refectory, chatting about who knows, after a concert and well-spiced lamb stew and Ashley’s Cornish ale and eccentric lyrical speeches by the festival’s father figure, Hilary, and a dubious reading of the Brahms A Major Piano Quartet… As I said, it’s 3 am, and the […]
Day 1. First reading. Apparently the charming, devastatingly handsome pianist of the group (a certain Jeremy M. Denk, Esq.) is a wee grumpy. There is some disagreement about tempo, with the group dividing more or less strings vs. piano (how unusual!), which devolves further and further into animosity. When asked his opinion of a passage […]
I have a tip for you. Don’t check in online for your London flight at 4 AM, while lying sprawled in bed, after closing down Little Branch (a favorite spectral haunt, these days.) You may fall asleep in the middle of check-in, snoring peacefully while you get assigned—by default, that rascally demon of bureaucracies—a middle […]
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