December 20, 2015
“It’s truly time to study the water, passing, each specific ripple, flicker of light—“
- Robert Creeley [1926-2005]; from Hello: A Journal [1976]
December 11, 2015
T.J. Anderson, at the age of 87, has just completed a new memorial piano work for the extraordinary coloratura soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs Janzon (1925-2015). He is working as consistently as at any other time in his creative life.
Is the composer/pianist in the silent abode akin to the painter in the whitewashed apartment? Colors from no colors, or clear sounds emerging from silence? This method (if you want to call it such) seems clearer than trying to be heard over the crowd of other musics that populate the “hard day of composing and playing.”
December 10, 2015
Be kind, forthright. Do what you can; seek to own nothing.