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Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot [by Lewis Saul]
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri (1906-1975) Tahiti Trot (1928) Staatsoper Berlin Daniel Barenboim, cond. (4:08) Vincent Youmans composed Tea for Two for his musical No, No, Nanette in 1927. Shostakovich and his friend, the conductor Nicolai Malko, recalled hearing the tune in ’27 at the Meyerhold Theatre in Moscow in a play called Roar, China. In one…
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: December 6, 2023
Congratulations to Mary Jo Bang whose book A Film in which I Play Everyone was published earlier this fall by Graywolf. Here’s a spectacular sample poem: SPEAKING OF THE FUTURE, HAMLET is saying, someday this day will be over. A moon will presumably still be above: a bone quiet, an inflatable in the scene —the…
This Developed Nation? | Wandering Biku
In this Developed Nation, a 19 year old woman sleeps in a bag in a door way. In this Developed Nation, a working family of four relies on the local food bank. In this Developed Nation, grandmothers live on a pittance and die lonely. In this Developed Nation, my friends use drugs to fill a…
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: APRIL 17, 2024
Tayi Tibble’s second book of poems Rangikura was just reprinted with Knopf. (The volume was first published in 2021 in New Zealand.) Tibble, from Wellington, New Zealand, writes a poetry that blends her Māori culture with the attitude and wisdom of a young Millennial or the elder stateswoman of Gen Z. (Tibble was born in 1995.)…
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: January 10, 2024
Lately I have been with obsessed with the sonnet—all it can hold within those 14 lines. So many variations of the sonnet (Coleman, Hayes, Hamby, just to name a few!)…Enter Aaron Smith who uses the same end word—sissy—all the way through…. Sissy I can’t remember my dad calling me a sissy, but he definitely told…
“Dead of Night”: Homage to the Uncanny
If you haven’t seen “Dead of Night” (1945), you’re in for a great time as David Lehman tells us in his latest “Talking Pictures” column for The American Scholar. Here’s how the post begins: Dead of Night (1945), an anthology movie with segments directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer, is one of the glories of British black-and-white…