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Moments from Proust. II. “The Restaurant at Rivebelle”

June 18, 2021 – 5:37 PM

Albumleaf 182: June 14, 2021 (Bologna) . . . this music that greeted our earsâ€”arrangements of waltzes of German operettas, of music-hall songs, all of them quite new to meâ€”was itself like an ethereal pleasure-dome superimposed upon the other and more intoxicating still.Â [. . .] Â But while I was humming softly to myself the […]

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Moments from Proust. I. Dreams of Travel and of Love

May 4, 2021 – 5:45 PM

Albumleaf 181: May 3, 2021 (Bologna) Thus, if I always imagined the woman I loved surrounded by the places I longed for most at the time, if I would have liked her to be the one who took me to visit them, who opened the way for me into an unknown world, it was not […]

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“180”

February 15, 2021 – 12:35 PM

Albumleaf 180: February 15, 2021 (Bologna) A cutesy one for the music-theory geeks. (A little circle of fifths and geometry, and you should get the idea.)

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“Affannato”

February 8, 2021 – 3:04 PM

Albumleaf 179: February 5, 2021 (Bologna) “Breathless”

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“Latemar Dream”

January 18, 2021 – 4:04 PM

Albumleaf 178: January 16, 2021 (Bologna) The coronavirus situation has confined us to Bologna for months now, and with each passing day I yearn more and more to travel–especially to non-urban areas like the mountains. I have never been to the Latemar range in the Dolomites. But someone posted about them the other day on […]

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“Il tintinnio dei monatti”

January 13, 2021 – 10:57 AM

Albumleaf 177: January 13, 2021 (Bologna) “The Ringing of the Dead-Gatherers” During the plague of 1630, the groups of men who went around collecting the sick and dead in Milan were called “monatti,” and they wore little bells on their ankles to signal their approach. In Manzoni’s The Betrothed, the monatti are often inebriated and […]

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