After-Orts #85
… losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn’t know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you’re picking up the pieces—down to the last glassy splinter.
— Saul Bellow, in a letter to Martin Amis
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We find signs of the composer’s self-amusement even in the smallest figurations: in a bar of Mozartean “filler”, broken-third patterns will appear going in one direction in the exposition and in another, (perhaps trickier), in the recap. For the player this is rather like following the footprints of someone who can also climb trees.
— Daniel Avshalomov, violist of the American String Quartet, in his insightful notes for their CD recording (Musical Heritage Society) of the complete Mozart string quartets, 1992/97
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Link-Boys: Walking Streetlamps for Hire in Seventeenth-Century London
https://daily.jstor.org/walking-streetlamps-for-hire-in-seventeenth-century-london/
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Editor's Apology: the two quotes from D. W. Winnicott in After-Orts #84 were both mangled. Thanks to loyal reader GM who found the correct quotes and the source:
In the artist of all kinds I think one can detect an inherent dilemma, which belongs to the co-existence of two trends, the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found.
...it is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found.
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Winnicott_Communicating_and_Not_Communicating.pdf
pp. 438-439
"Management regrets any inconvenience..." etc.