Joel Mandelbaum

THE UNNECESSARY DEMISE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC This is the third and final installment of the posts leading up to the performance of my choral setting of Wallace Stevens’ poem Sea Surface Full of Clouds on March 3, 2024.  (at The Society For Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th street at 3:00) Throughout most of my creative life I …

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In my first essay I promised some form of analysis of the poem and its musical setting. The poem is in five stanzas, each containing 18 symmetrically spaced lines.  Here is the first stanza   In that November off Tehuantepec The slopping of the sea grew still one night. And in the morning summer hued the deck …

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