TEXT download pdf is at http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/on-love-and-learning.pdf

BACKGROUND music: VIRIDITAS, a soundpoem for Strings, Harp, & Two Trumpets on Hildegard von BINGEN’S “O noblissima viriditas”
And: from the StarCYCLE DUO “alpha PYXIS” for two piano, the Thelonious MONK movement

IMAGE: Native Balsamroot, flowers first appearing in Spring, the WALLOWAS, OREGON

On Love, Learning and the World-wide Tragedy of Public Schools, 18 miniatures

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

On Love, Learning and the World-wide Tragedy of Public Schools, 18 miniatures

Cliff Crego