Samples of the works of the Irish architect, furniture designer and visual artist, Eileen Gray
Jack DeJohnette’s group from 1980, with David Murray and Arthur Blythe saxophones, Peter Warren, bass, Jack on melodica. Their rendering of John Coltrane’s majestic “Central Park West.”
“Do your best when no one is looking.
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poet Philip Larkin
“The School In August by Philip Larkin
The cloakroom pegs are empty now,
And locked the classroom door,
The hollow desks are lined with dust,
And slow across the floor
A sunbeam creeps between the chairs
Till the sun shines no more.
Who did their hair before this glass?
Who scratched ‘Elaine loves Jill’
One drowsy summer sewing-class
With scissors on the sill?
Who practised this piano
Whose notes are now so still?
Ah, notices are taken down,
And scorebooks stowed away,
And seniors grow tomorrow
From the juniors today,
And even swimming groups can fade,
Games mistresses turn grey.”