Umbrian landscape, before familiar to me only from Renaissance paintings. Long, simple days in which to work, in which ideas were fixed into music. Many family-style dinners with such a variety of people, and one festive picnic on a hill, celebrating the simultaneous...
I was the first Fellow to occupy Barbagianni…the owl’s nest room with its extraordinary views out of each of the turret’s four windows: the castle grounds from one, and from the other three: combed farm fields with rolled and packed haystacks, a...