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Babi Yar Massacre – 71 Years Ago Yesterday – Shostakovich & Yevtushenko
Edmonton, AB, 1 October 2012 I’m writing a section on Shostakovich—the symphonies and string quartets—for Reaching Batavia. And of course that returns me to the thirteenth symphony. Yesterday was the...
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The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk – The Re-discovery of Voice and its...
The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk, or, in Dutch, my original language, De echt verloren arias van Henk van Strijk, is my third work of poetry. It explores the influence of place, whether gained or...
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“here everything silently screams”
The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk, 3:8 . The muck collapses inward as bones seep To the surface, a broken ulna with lost carpals, Rotted marrow mixed with the mire of men. . The grave heaves towards...
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Libretto from Leiden
The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk, 4:4 . Violetta’s cantabile entangles the silences Of my pleasure, my salon ensnared with laughter Lured by last night’s cognac, self-pity Softening its cabaletta...
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Spirits
The Lost Arias of Henk van Strijk, 2:20 . I descend into the drinking of destiny: Personal control abdicated by its presence; Fate that will wake on the doorstep of The sanatorium of the mind, it And...
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Hendrik Slegtenhorst – Literary CV
Artist’s Statement My essential interests reside in culture as the manifestation and foundation of societies; hence, my continuing association with the arts, especially music and literature. My...
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Hendrik Slegtenhorst – Publications
Books Caravaggio’s Dagger (A Pursuit of Right Action), poetry, Iguana Books (Toronto, ON), 119 pp., (2013). 2. Literary Publications “Self-portrait at 58,” Grain (Saskatoon, SK), in press. “On the Deck...
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The Experiences of Greatest Value
These experiences have been of most value and interest to me: hearing for the first time, in Ottawa, the nine symphonies of Beethoven, in the Toscanini recordings; my editorial work for Dr. Hans Selye,...
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Reaching Batavia
Reaching Batavia, a book of essays, is concerned with responsibility and the examined life, through an interlinear examination of the influence of place, people, and the arts. Its structure is...
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Babi Yar Massacre – 71 Years Ago Yesterday – Shostakovich & Yevtushenko
Edmonton, AB, 1 October 2012 I’m writing a section on Shostakovich—the symphonies and string quartets—for Reaching Batavia. And of course that returns me to the thirteenth symphony. Yesterday was the...
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