HeyJaredTales of the Chief Describer
My music and radio writings and creations, but more importantly, my uncovered research on New Music America (1979-1990) which I attended from 1984 on.
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254. Rosenberg 3.2 Not Violin Music = “...you that A Shard of Rosenberg is the absolute…” (opens the original)
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Violins. It’s all about violins. And dysfunction. It’s all about violins and dysfunction. And the Rosenberg Musical Family Tree, just briefly glimpsed at in this very short essay selection, picked at random to be reviewed as the 254th review (give or take an X) of Rosenberg 3.0 Not Violin Music, a monumental task that seemed to go unnoticed when it first appeared on Facebook without the accompanying page being reviewed. We don’t have that problem here on Substack where the standards have been su
253. Rosenberg 3.2 Not Violin Music = “Next, we heard rumblings of a Romanian taxi…’ (opens the original)
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So Jon Rose came out with a 284 page book about Dr. Johannes Rosenberg but really, it was all about violins. From 2015-2016, I set out to review each and every page, one at a time, chosen at random. At this point in my life, my health was not very great (it’s much better now) and I thought this would be my only hope at getting some of my unpublished words and experiences, especially those of my seven New Music America festivals, into some kind of ether, print or digital form before I died (which
252. Rosenberg 3.2 Not Violin Music = “‘…planetary grid infrastructure to harbour clip-on floating mobile homes, …: (opens the original)
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Owing to a glitch in the Rosenflux, there are several pages that were not reviews but nonetheless posted at the Rosenberg Museum Facebook page in order to fulfill the requirements to say something about every one of the 284 pages. Since the Museum’s had several reboots of its websites, these pages have been lost, except to the Facebook archives master-data centers.All that remains of review number 251 was the cryptic reference title of “reflections on white and dark at NMA86” - that being New Mu
250. Rosenberg 3.2 Not Violin Music = [split photos: jagged bits and chaos] (opens the original)
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In 2014, Jon Rose as curator released the third volume in a series of books on the life of Dr. Johannes Rosenberg (1921-1991), sort of a Forrest Gump of the New Music world. I had participated with great delight as a live describer for the France/French premiere of Violin Music in the Age of Shopping (sending a live review to the audience watching the performance which made me the fastest critic ever).So when Rosenberg 3.0 Not Violin Music came out, I sought to thank Jon by telling him I would r
249. Rosenberg 3.2 Not Violin Music = “…warrant the changing of Porritt’s decision. Mind you, Porritt…” (opens the original)
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Page from Rosenberg 3.0 Not Violin Music (2014), selected by random number generator, then retyped entirely, then reviewed by the Chief Describer.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="206" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AxDV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:go
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