reckoning with society's brokenness
Berklee College of Music in Boston treats with seriousness and depth music I am passionate about. I spent my undergraduate career immersed in the poetry of Nicolas Guillen and emerged with an original song cycle, an honors paper featuring Cuban composers, and two class presentations based on his work. When I graduated, I abandoned… Continue reading Thirty Years in Cuban Music
Most musical genres I know are ones I discovered in the classroom. Flamenco is not one of them. Today, when my friend played the Gipsy Kings' Mosaique on his homemade turntable, I recalled aspects of the music that I learned while attending a flamenco show in Seville, Spain nine years ago. Then, I counted along… Continue reading Return to Flamenco
A few blocks south of Carl Fischer's clock, Forbes' distant sound cut to thistles shimmering on a hillside afternoon hike. For a moment I walked in two places, two times: University of Edinburgh, 1998 Cooper Square, 2012. *** I paid a 50-cent fare to rest in Rosenthal's presence as bagpipe drones and trills echoed off… Continue reading Forbes-Time
