His book is not a biography, but its guesses about the inner life of an impersonal man are shrewd. Bach's supremely ordered music, Gardiner suggests, is engaged in a desperate struggle to keep chaos at bay. And he detects a glint in those fixed, asymmetrical eyes – a hint of the mad exuberance and raging complexity vented in his fugues or in the wild cacophony when the chorus in the St Matthew Passion demands Christ's death. But Gardiner now fastens on the "fleshly lips and jowls" that tell of Bach's partiality for food and drink: severity is countered by sensuality. The nose is still beaky, and the eyelids have a weary, elderly droop. In Princeton, where the portrait (pictured) is now located, he looks both at it and through it, discerning the character of this most detached and unconfiding of artists. On his way upstairs to bed, the young Gardiner always flinched from the zealot's "forbidding stare".Īt the end of his long book, after a lifetime spent studying and conducting Bach's choral works, Gardiner finally has the courage to return that stern gaze. Gardiner actually grew up under the eye of the bewigged Lutheran cantor: a portrait of him had been entrusted to Gardiner's parents – who raised their brood with sung graces at mealtimes and traditional country dances afterwards – for safekeeping during the war. B ach might be John Eliot Gardiner's godfather, a few centuries removed.
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In 1990, he moved to Porto, Portugal, where he taught journalism for sixteen years, first at the College of Journalism and later at the University of Porto. After earning a bachelor’s degree in comparative religion from Duke University (1977) and a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University (1982), he worked for eight years as a journalist in the San Francisco Bay area. Richard Zimler is a novelist whose works have been published in 23 languages and been bestsellers in 13 different countries, including the USA, UK, France, Italy, Brazil, Australia and Portugal. Now, faced with mounting pressure from her drug dealer, Dom (and his goon, Betty), Frances comes up with a terrible idea: She asks Elaine to move in with her for real. But somehow (it involved a steady stream of beer and weed, as things often did with Frances) Elaine ended up in Frances’s bed and never left. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne. An intriguingly headstrong yet vulnerable character with an astonishing talent for making the worst possible life-decisions." -Sarah Haywood, best-selling author of The Cactusįrances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. "A brilliantly quirky, surreally funny story. An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman’s harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make soup, and finally get some peace and quiet. But the band couldn't deal with the "failure" of its success or a clash of wills more discordant than any tune or mood they could conjure. Some thought Rotten was the Antichrist, his fans all anarchists. Johnny Rotten's first recorded words were "I am an antiChrist/ I am an anarchist" and for a little more than two years, he and the Sex Pistols convinced an awful lot of people that was true. With bracing singles like "Anarchy in the U.K.," "God Save the Queen" and "Pretty Vacant," the wildly controversial Sex Pistols embodied a time when music, fashion and attitude figuratively, and sometimes literally, spat in the face of society. Lydon certainly did and for 15 years, he chose not to discuss his crucial role as lead singer, key songwriter and shamanistic antihero with the seminal British punk band. Lydon's last words as Rotten were spoken at the end of the Sex Pistols' final concert in January 1978 at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom: "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?" This is the story of Johnny Rotten - according to John Lydon. |