Cairo-Alexandria Egyptian tale of two cities, Madame La Farge
knitting while the revolution continues seeking to alter change tyrannical rule
tyrannical rule by a former jet pilot from his 30 year grip on power, his
predecessor Anwar Sadat, a crtony of Jimmy Carter. assassinated..
II
You can’t hold back the masses, Mister Moto”(Peter Lorre)
and James Mason starring in Joseph L Mankiewicz’s”Five graves
to Cairo”
III
A sobering minority investment bid for the New York
baseball Mets by Martin Luther King Jr.,the Brooklyn
based Lafayette High Wilpon family and shades of Sandy
Koufax....thinking big time as skin pigment goes the way
of the saber tooth tiger ... L.A’s. miracle mile. La Brea
tar pits
Where is Wilt Chamberlain when Martin Luther
needs him?
IV
“It takes twelve to tango”:, the passing of the twelve tone
electronic composer&pioneer Milton Babbitt at the ripe old age of
94 in Princeton.
A half a century plus ten in Ojai he and his contemporaries
mused their Arnold Schoenberg dissonance for a three day
weekend.
Andre Previn, Luciano Beria being in the mix.
“Not pleasant to the ear” we hear you say but at least the dissonant
revolution cast no mortal dust as with President Mubarak’s
strong arm “leadership. “
The serendipity and calibration with Sinclair Lewis’s “Babbit”
had a mellifluous tonal impact, notwithstanding those Ojai
California grimacing neighbors some 60 years ago. .
Celebrating Franz Schubert’s 31 years of productivity
the sleety Big Apple awaiting another storm.,January 31,2011.
