jourmal pages April 10-30 2011

Luigi Marchesi & ‘Cervetto’

Cervetto/ Marchesi –   Luigi Marchesi’s career stretched across the revolutionary generation. He was lionised by the Burneys, by Stendahl, by Napoleon, and gave singing lessons to Niccolo Paganini. Paganini-’Adieu a Londres’ Peter Sheppard Skaerved Violin  Upon hearing him for the first time, Maria Cosway wrote to Thomas. Jefferson:  ‘The most wonderful singer I ever heard.’ [...]

Journal Autumn 2010

After John White Abbott (Ballpoint)   Concert in the olive grove 4-9-10   Palms, from the Shoe Factory, 2nd September 2010 Last morning on the Green Line, September 5th 2010

Dartington notebook

Stephen Gutman plays Tchaikovsky 4 8 10   Crow feather. 4 8 10  

Suite for Joanna Jones

Marius’s Bartok

Visiting Bartok’s last home on 57th Street, New York City. July 20th 2010    Austro-Hungary at the time that Bartok was collecting material, a few years before World War One.    Marius Skaerved. Filming 16 06 2010 This summer, my son Marius will keep an on-line journal of our daily exploration of all the Bartok [...]

Somerset House and coffee

Silence

Connecticut ’08

Veils – for Joanna Jones