tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984317470266050424.post7190489606280675819..comments2024-03-03T17:50:27.025-05:00Comments on Gay Influence: Charles GriffesTerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18219632588063153768noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984317470266050424.post-88183897062493841732020-03-05T00:05:24.554-05:002020-03-05T00:05:24.554-05:00Wonderful! Thank you for this! I've loved Grif...Wonderful! Thank you for this! I've loved Griffes since I first heard him in College! And I love "The Lake at Evening."Jeff Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00316081079528920123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984317470266050424.post-7374814072111509742020-03-03T13:23:32.780-05:002020-03-03T13:23:32.780-05:00Slightly off topic, but on Sept. 11, 1919, a few m...Slightly off topic, but on Sept. 11, 1919, a few months before Griffes's death, The Church of the Messiah was to be the site of the funeral of Horace Traubel, Walt Whitman's biographer. But just as the cortege arrived, a fire broke out in the church building and the funeral had to be moved. <br /> <br />http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-lost-church-of-messiah-park-avenue.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-984317470266050424.post-44381051430850909532015-01-03T13:31:01.787-05:002015-01-03T13:31:01.787-05:00A wonderful piece of music! I had heard OF it, but...A wonderful piece of music! I had heard OF it, but never heard it before, even though I'd performed his The Fountains at the Aqua Paola forty-odd years ago. An underrated American composer, who deserves more attention today.<br /><br />I hope he and that policeman had a whale of a good time together. I wonder if the cop had any idea who he was making love with?<br /><br />Probably not. Such considerations rarely matter in the context of sexual relationships -- and may even prove inhibiting.<br /><br />- Orlando WoolfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com