I've revised - quite thoroughly revised - the riffs I've been posting here since September. You can find the complete revision here, in one long file. It's a lot to read, but I'd love people to read it. You'll see that everything is tighter, and flows better. With some new ideas added. And you'll see that the book will have musical interludes, as I'm calling them - passages on music itself. My reminiscence of singing Otello many years ago is now the first of these. The second might come in chapter two of the book, in the section on funding. … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Diversity challenge
Happy new year, everyone. I'm back, and relaunched into many projects, including my book, of course, but also some rebranding, which notably includes a complete redesign of my website. (Which is so creakily obsolete that I'm almost ashamed to give you the link. Maybe I should think of it as folk art.) Stay tuned for updates on this. Including the book. Here's a peek at a revised version of all those riffs -- improvisations on the book's content -- that I posted over the past months. More on that in my next post. But here's something my friend … [Read more...]