Learning to Surf

I seem to have forgotten the story of how we begin to remember....
Well, if he holds them till he dies, the fear in him should have subsided, anyway.
“Can [name of high-profile artist] save the arts?” Oh, please. The Arts are a matter greater than an individual with a commercially successful brand. If you don’t get that, you don’t understand Art.
Porridger’s Almanack (Breakfast of Ganglions)

Ken Russell: “President of what?”
Lee van Cleef: “That’s not funny, Plissken.”

— John Carpenter’s Escape from New York

In spite of all the uncertainty in my life at present, the availability of three flutes (Peter H. Bloom, Carol Epple & Dan Zupan) has inspired me to start a new piece, Surfing an Earthquake, Opus 190. It won’t be of epic proportions, today I’ve composed it out to about two minutes, and I’ll just write a bit as I feel bidden.