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John Duykers and I were on the radio last Sunday on
KRCB, the local NPR station near his home in Sebastopol. He's a farmer as well as an
internationally renowned opera singer, so he was the one invited onto what was ostensibly a food show, to wit
Mouthful. A direct link to the podcast is
here but it's also on
iTunes. John brought in a lovely dish consisting of multiple potato species, kale, collards, and a buttery spicy drizzle. I would say that, if one wants to work in opera, one should make sure that the artists with which one works should provide at least one of your other basic human needs besides artistic fulfillment, e.g. companionship, fresh organic produce, sex, laughter, knowledge, linguistics, and so on. Maybe in a future post I will present a bipartite graph where the one of the two disjoint sets consists of my artistic partners and the other my basic human needs and the readers will be invited to draw in their guesses as to the graph edges. But I was on the show to provide some musical interludes (the quite lovely numbers
brightness 2 and
Casus Tertius) But work on Mordake is heating up in preparation for
Frieder Weiss to come and give the visuals the Frieder touch. Light, but persuasive.
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