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Tag: Colm Toibin

Thursday, December 8th

alone

Antoine Tamestit (1979-, viola), Paris, 5/16/20: Max Reger (1873-1916), Solo Suite No. 1 in G-minor (1915)

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You would want to be an awful fool not to know that we only bloom once.

—writer Colm Toibin (1955-) quoting writer John McGahern (1934-2006), from a conversation shortly before his death (London Review of Books, 1/27/22)

Wednesday, April 17

what’s new

Joanna Mattrey (viola, stroh violin), live, New York, 4/8/19

 

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I made my way to the sofa, where I battled against cancer once more by lying there staring straight ahead. I had such great resistance to thought that I didn’t even worry.

—Colm Toibin, “‘It’s curable,’ he said,” London Review of Books, 4/18/19