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Better Than Wednesday - 94 (Patreon)

Published:
2021-06-02 21:50:49
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2021-06-02 21:54:16
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Good morning everyone, thanks for your patience with this post. 

Just got back from St. Pete last night. 

Didn't take long to decide that we're moving back, though that's down the road. 

Hope you're all doing very well and having some great weather - 90's over here (already!)

1. A Book I'm Rereading alongside the Gulf - The Old Man and the Sea

This is just as good as I remember. Better. 

It's just unbelievable what that guy could do with so few words. 

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

- Amazon

2. An appropriate reaction to Martha Argerich

Astounding. 

3. Siouxsie 

I was a fan of Siouxsie and the Banshees back in the day, but until recently hadn't heard this. 

4. Terrific Bookstore + Wine Shop in Downtown St. Petersburg 

A lot has changed since I've been in St. Pete. 

This beautiful quiet space serves some excellent bottles and books. 

Really enjoyed wandering around there one evening drinking wine and browsing titles.  

5. The restaurant where I had what may have been the greatest dinner of my life.  

Tucked away on a small street in downtown Sarasota, surrounded by palms and various tropical plants, this place had the absolute best fish I'd ever had, a seared piece of Scamp fish, which I'd never had before. 

Excellent. 

I mean, ridiculously good. 

Vinoy Park in St. Pete

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Derrik

Yeah, man, Rick's channel is mandatory viewing!

Donald Wright

I was fortunate to see Martha Argerich live only once: and that was in San Francisco ca. 2007 where she played the Ravel G-Major Concerto (the piece that's heard as the YouTube tribute to her ends). Three favorite and apparently true stories about her: 1) When she was in her late teens, she first learned the Prokofiev Third Concerto (known practically as her "signature" piece) while lying in bed sleeping (she's always been a night owl, seldom arising before late afternoon) and listening to a housemate learning it. Martha learned it (that incredibly difficult and dissonant piece) by ear—including the mistakes that the roommate made! She later of course had to fix those. 2) When she was about 19, she first learned the Ravel G-Major Concerto to be performed with orchestra on the radio the next day, conducted by a man who would later become one of her husbands, Charles Dutoit. The night before the concert, she still hadn't learned the second movement. So she excused herself from dinner around 9 pm, and went upstairs (where there was no piano) and proceeded to learn the movement by studying the score! Of course, she played it flawlessly the next day. And 3) When she was about 13 or 14, and studying briefly with Friedrich Gulda, he thought she was being lazy, so he ordered her to learn and bring to him for her next lesson within the week Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit (one of the most terrifyingly difficult pieces in the entire solo repertoire) with the Schumann "Abegg" Variations. She came back with both, and played them perfectly, from memory. That's astounding enough, but the clincher is that she recounted later that she didn't realize that that feat was supposed to be difficult! Sorry to hog a huge amount of comment real-estate about her, but I've been quite a fan for some time!

Donald Wright

And a quick comment about The Old Man and the Sea. I like what Hemingway himself wrote about the novel in a letter to Bernard Berenson in late 1952: "There isn’t any symbolism [in The Old Man and the Sea]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The sharks are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is s___." (Hemingway spelled out the word. :) ) I'm not sure that I believe him! Sometimes creators are the last people to trust when they speak or write about their own works. I think they sometimes just get tired of hearing the same questions, and so invent new answers to them!