by Kurt Knecht | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
I was naturally excited when I read that 2014 had been proclaimed the “International Year of Crystallography”. (You can keep up with all the scintillating developments here.) I have a very dear friend who is a crystallographer, so I’m excited that...
by Kurt Knecht | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
I have a friend that works at the local Walmart. He has been working about 30 hours a week for what amounts to wages that are below the poverty line. He went on vacation and was getting ready to go back. He got a call from his supervisor – just before he was...
by Kurt Knecht | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
C minor woke up a little groggy. He didn’t really want to begin his day, but after lying in bed for awhile, he finally decided that it had to start somewhere. He awoke late with a bit of a hangover, and a G major chord was coming in measure five whether he was...
by Kurt Knecht | Nov 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
This bit is quite thought provoking.From The Book of Laughter and Forgetting:”If it is true that the history of music has come to an end, what is left of music? Silence?Not in the least. There is more and more of it, many times more than in its most glorious...
by Kurt Knecht | Nov 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Having long been aware of Thomas Mann’s famous description of Schoenberg’s writing – which was apparently taken largely from Adorno – I found Kundera’s writing about modern music exciting and insightful. From The Book of Laughter and...
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