Circus by Wayne Koestenbaum
Author:Wayne Koestenbaum
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781593765637
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2019-04-22T16:00:00+00:00
I played Scriabin’s Vers la flamme competently for Alma after roast chicken and plum crumble. She said listening would speed up her blood clot’s healing. No Orpheus, no fée, I didn’t demand perfection. I offered notes in reasonable order, a bare-minimum communicative intensity. Scriabin didn’t settle Alma’s stomach. She dislikes pedantic lectures, but I tried to explain my new discovery: “A walk-around harmony seeks no obvious resolution but exhibits a paltry stasis, so we, listeners, walk around the chord rather than insist it move forward. A walk-around chord lets us circle it—did Keats call it a ‘brede’?”
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