> Unable to sleep, the poet Marie Ponsot lay in a hospital bed one night last month trying to figure out what it was that she no longer knew. A few days earlier, she’d had a stroke. Her brain had been ransacked. Poems that she had been reciting from…
Tonight's the regular meeting of a stroke support that I've been attending, and I volunteered to bring part of the snacks. (Seemed like a better idea when I couldn't possibly have known that baking day would fall in the middle of a heat wave,…
> Because I have autism, I live by concrete rules instead of abstract beliefs. And because I have autism, I think in pictures and sounds. I don't have the ability to process abstract thought the way that you do. Here's how my brain works: It'…
I've got to try to find some context for this. It reads as if it's a project I did for Toastmasters. > In the movie the young man said “You can always travel in there” as he touched the forehead of the woman who would become…
The new year kicked off with a recital by Jeremy Denk. > Embarrassment of riches this afternoon: historic Met performance on radio; recital tickets at Kennedy Center. — Mike Schultz (@schultzmt) January 23, 2010 [https://twitter.com/schultzmt/statuses/8118732790] > Jeremy Denk pleases at Kennedy Center: Bach, Ives, Liszt, and…
> Just the thing for a sloppy day: recital by Plamena Mangova about to begin. House does seem a little light. Standards, Scriabin, Ginastera. — Mike Schultz (@schultzmt) December 5, 2009 [https://twitter.com/schultzmt/statuses/6376392555] > Mangova satsfies, not overwhelms. Ginastera pleases most. Maybe too brilliant; has not yet…
In October, I won tickets to a performance by Murray Perahia. > Unbelievable luck! Won tickets to WPAS performance by Murray Perahia at Kennedy Center. Bach, Schumann, and more this weekend. — Mike Schultz (@schultzmt) October 15, 2009 [https://twitter.com/schultzmt/statuses/4895094686] > Perahia spellbinding in first half of…
A post about a Lincoln Center performance [http://mikeschultz.posterous.com/musical-tradition] reminded me I should take advantage of the new embedded tweet feature to capture my impressions of a recent Kennedy Center performance. > Tsujii at #KenCen [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KenCen&src=hash]: good in Chopin;…