Posts tagged Sergei Rachmaninoff
Songs for the Vesper Issue (A Selection)
Songs for the Vesper Issue (A Selection)

Venus is rising on Half Mystic Journal. Opus II, Issue III: Vesper sleepwalks to life on July 28th, plucked like a violin string from that quicksand hour before dreaming.

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Music, SelectionsTopaz WintersJordan Escobar, Justin Groppuso-Cook, David Eileen, Russell Karick, Maria Gray, Ava Chen, Abigail Sims, Joel Peckham, K.M. Hanslik, Hana Saad, Kaitlin Tan, Rucker Manley, arushi (aera) rege, es k. harvey, B. Sancho, Jaydra Johnson, Lorde, KiNG MALA, Ray Chen, Sting, Prewn, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mitski, Kelela, Sophia Stel, Deb Never, Emma Ruth Rundle, Sleeping at Last, Cigarettes After Sex, Ohio Martinez, Elori Saxl, Henry Solomon, Annie DiRusso, Ruston Kelly, Dizzy, Buffy Saint-Marie, Phoebe Bridgers, Sufjan Stevens, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Slowdive, Squalloscope, The Tiny, Julien Baker, Claude Debussy, Philip Glass, Bleachers, Bear McCreary, Hozier, MALINDA, Isaiah Sheffield, Samia
“It’s the dancer’s leap on the downbeat that gives the illusion of flight.” (Will Cordeiro on Presto)
“It’s the dancer’s leap on the downbeat that gives the illusion of flight.” (Will Cordeiro on Presto)

Bang, the universe began—and ended. A cosmos is reduced to an epigram. Narrative allows us to dash through eternity as quick as a quantum leap.

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Literature, Music, History, FilmGuestR. S. Thomas, Will Cordeiro, David Foster Wallace, Italo Calvino, David Hume, Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Niccolò Paganini, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Paul Wittgenstein, Ted Hearne, Johannes Moser, Johann Strauss, Henri Bergson, Horace Walpole, Willa Cather, Terrance Malick, John Gay, Kenneth Koch, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, Samuel Butler, Christopher Okigbo, Jay Wright, Douglas Kearney, Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas De Quincey, James Agee, John Barthes, William H. Gass, John Lyly, Thomas Browne, Virginia Woolf, Will Self, José Lezama Lema, Severo Sarduy, Guillermo Cabrera Infante