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Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Every Night

06.25.11 Posted in Contributor Series 9, today's words by

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Every Night By Hugh Fox Every night, it’s all we ever do, seven-thirty or eight over at the Music Building or Wharton Center, so many fanatic genius Russian Jewish cellists, violinists in the music department, a few Brazilians, loads, loads, loads of South Koreans, Chinese, Armenians, here we […]


Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Sacred Cows

06.24.11 Posted in Contributor Series 9, today's words by

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Sacred Cows By Jean McLeod The classicists’ unassailable integrity eludes subtle attempts to alter inviolable design, even when happenstance introduces playful phantasms into works of chaste and vaunted beauty. Discord, by happy accident, perpetuates modification in loop, chorus, riff, ostinoto, pounds in surge and variation; deepens personality, interpretation. […]


Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, A Still Small Voice

06.23.11 Posted in Contributor Series 9, today's words by

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears A Still Small Voice By Ray Brown The artist’s melody infused the room. Embraced the audience. A violin, a cello, a flute, a fine-tuned piano. I held her hand spoke to her in a still, small voice. Like a bow to the strings of a violin, it resonated. […]


Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, My Father The Jazz Singer

06.23.11 Posted in Contributor Series 9, words to linger on by

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears My Father the Jazz SingerBy Elizabeth Stelling I saw smack daddy arrows heading straight for my heart amongst the mania expressed moaning in early morning rain pounding compounding loud hangover grooves of one dollar beer laced with gin and bottled up good looks stretching truth as long as […]


Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears, Watercolour Guitar

06.22.11 Posted in Contributor Series 9, today's words by

Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears Watercolour Guitar By Ivan Jenson Sometimes  you  are  difficult as  painting with watercolors I have to let you flow because flooding your senses might make your colors bleed sometimes you are easy as the guitar I strum the strings of your hair and  suddenly a song Ivan Jenson’s […]


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