Archive for July, 2010

Undaunted

Posted on Jul th, 2010 by Jeanne Golan

Book orders arrived.  On Steve’s recommendation, got a copy of Josa Karas’ “Music in Terezin.”   So well and humanely written, it’s a passage into the world that Ullmann and in fact, all the musicians there lived in.  Wild to think that Ullmann almost immediately considered this camp some sort of artist colony that gave him [ Read More ]

My new roommate Viktor

Posted on Jul th, 2010 by Jeanne Golan

Increasingly, seems as if Viktor Ullmann has moved into my apartment.  Now juggling the learning/practicing of all four ‘odd’ sonatas, I hear these melodies in my sleeping and waking hours, find myself humming them as I walk (not run) errands, move the car from side to side in the time-honored alternate side parking culture that [ Read More ]