Jill Talbot: “I worry I already live in a perpetual state of detachment from the world, from experiences, from people — I see the essay in everything. So when I begin to think about how to shape an experience via formal experimentation or point of view or metaphor, the experience dissolves and the essay emerges.”
Tag: 06.27.15
Remembering The Most Powerful Man In Classical Music
“It is hard to think of Ronald Wilford, who died last week, aged 87, without a sneaking admiration. A self-schooled Machiavellian, a Mandelson of music, he invented a chimera of ‘the great conductor’ and, as president of Columbia Artists (CAMI), sold it at unimaginable profit.”