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Poetry News:

1. Dodge Poetry Festival announces roster of poets for Waterloo Village biennial event —
2. Ted Hughes revealed as a domestic tyrant who laid down law to mistress —
3. Millay’s words and home still stand atop Taconic Ridge —
4. Intrigued, the singer proposed a collaboration, and Levertov instantly said yes. —
5. Sipping ouzo with Sappho —
6. Was Burns’s singing voice a far cry from ‘untunable’? —

I have been really busy with work. And, twice a week, I have been teaching someone to read. It’s fun and I’m learning a lot. So is the learner. I never really thought about it but English is pretty hard. Take ou. Can sound like bought, round, wound, adjourn. 1 in 5 adults in Nashville can’t read above the 3rd grade level.

Today the new symphony space opens up here in Nashville, and it is beautiful.

On the menu:

Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Fleck/Hussain/Meyer - Concerto
Barber - Essay No. 2 for Orchestra
Mahler - Symphony No. 2 (4th and 5th Movements)

You can listen to the opening gala at 6pm CST tonight 09/09/06 at WPLN online on the FM station. I’m going in May to a Haydn symphony & Bartok concerto. I like composers who use folk music motifs and stuff, though I’ve never been to a symphony concert and am pretty ignorant about the whole genre. I went to the opera once, though, in Detroit. It was Dame Joan Sutherland’s final performance of Norma. Gary Burton and Chick Corea are playing that new symphony hall but it is sold out. I’m going to see if Darryl can get us some tickets though, since Gary Burton played on his CD (which you can buy here) and also his forthcoming one. Probably slim chance but I’ll ask anyway.

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