A Tribute to Sam Jaffe / Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac: Banality...
Bizarre is blameless; special spells delight; All oddness thrills; rare earns an orison … A blackbird´s song ecstatic if it´s white And, hearing it, my gloomy mood is gone. Obscurity is piety in...
View ArticleJean-Marie Leclair
The son of a skilled haberdasher and amateur musician, Leclair was born in Lyon on May 10, 1697, one of six siblings, five of whom were also to become musicians. He is often called “the elder” to...
View ArticleLuis Dias: From `The Angel and the Devil´
…Thus we have an almost seamless line of Italian violinists or the ‘violinisti’, embodying the Italian violin school: Corelli of Rome, Vivaldi of Venice, Somis of Turin, Tartini of Padua, Geminiani of...
View ArticleSimon Silas Lower: The Riddle of the Fiddler´s Death ( via Vox – The Magazine...
Thin grey mist hung in the air. The dank stench of the nearby brook struck Bourgeois’ nostrils, as it did every morning when he closed his gate and turned right along his garden wall into the Rue de...
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