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Alex Weiser - in a dark blue night A plangent, plunging bass line and the traipsing and frolicking of Spiegelberg's clarinet introduce the titular 'Coney Island', which in rhapsodic terms describes a day at the beach without adults or limits, whose highlights include such quintessential fare as a hot dog at Nathan's and a frozen custard, which in the recollection...

'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

This week the composer Alex Weiser follows up his Pulitzer Prize-nominated debut album and all the days were purple - which set poetry to music from the lider of Anna Margolin and her fellow Yiddish poets Edward Hirsch, Rachel Korn and Abraham Sutzkever to William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson who spoke on the transience of love and life,...