Monthly Archives: August 2014

A Week With Ned Corman: Day Five

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Welcome to the fifth episode of my q&a with first-class jazzman and music-educator extraordinaire Ned Corman. On day one, we discussed his early years; day two covered some of Ned’s teaching and gigging adventures; day three touched on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Interviews, Music | Tagged education, festivals, jazz, Music, ned corman, penfield, Rochester, stan hasty | 3 Comments

A Week With Ned Corman: Day Four

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Welcome to the fourth episode of my q&a with first-class jazzman and music-educator extraordinaire Ned Corman. On day one, we discussed his early years; day two covered some of Ned’s teaching and gigging adventures; day three touched on … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Interviews, Music | Tagged chuck mangione, eastman kodak, education, frederick fennell, george eastman, Music, ned corman, penfield, Rochester | 2 Comments

A Week With Ned Corman: Day Three

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: Welcome to the third episode of my q&a with first-class jazzman and music-educator extraordinaire Ned Corman. On day one, we discussed his early years; day two covered some of Ned’s teaching and gigging adventures. Today we talk about … Continue reading →

Posted in Interviews, Music | Tagged education, interview, Music, ned corman, penfield, Rochester | 3 Comments

omg…it’s a twitter essay!

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Glynn Marshes

Glynn Marshes writes: And I didn’t even know twitter essays were a thing. Topic: social contracts, protests, and whether contemporary police theories about crowd control are a throwback to 19th century mob violence literature. In seventeen numbered 140-character tweets. With … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics and Economics | 3 Comments

A Week With Ned Corman: Day Two

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: In this posting, I introduced the inspiring jazz musician and music educator Ned Corman. Ned and I talked about his life as a Pennsylvania farm boy, then as a young musician, then as a student at Eastman … Continue reading →

Posted in Interviews, Music | Tagged chuck mangione, gap mangione, jazz, Music, ned corman, Rochester | 6 Comments

Notes on “Every-Night Dreams”

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: There’s an almost cubist visual sensibility at work in this 1933 silent from director Mikio Naruse. Scenes are fractured into barrages of angles, the camera sometimes moving in on its subjects in kamikaze fashion. Many of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged film Ever-Night Dreams, Japan, Mikio Naruse, movies, Silent Film, Sumiko Kurishima | 2 Comments

A Kipling for Our Times

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Fenster

Fenster writes: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . .

Posted in Photography, Technology | 2 Comments

A Week With Ned Corman: Day One

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Paleo Retiree

Paleo Retiree writes: When I was a 14 year old student in Penfield, New York, my school’s music teacher and bandleader died unexpectedly midway through the year. The young hotshot who was brought in to fill the post faced numerous … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Education, Interviews, Music | 7 Comments