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David Rothenberg

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David Rothenberg

David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing and Thousand Mile Song. He is working on a book on the evolution of beauty, to be published by Blomsbury in 2011. His first record on ECM, “One Dark Night I Left My Silent House” (named after a Peter Handke novel) comes out in June.

Articles by David Rothenberg

On Turning a Peter Handke Novel into Music, or Not

By David Rothenberg

When I was first asked to answer the question, “have you been influenced by Peter Handke?” my inclination was simply to say “no.” I had simply held his title On a Dark Night…

On Yuri Rytkheu’s “Magic Numbers”

By David Rothenberg

Yuri Rytkheu (1930-2008) is generally considered to be the most significant Russian author of the twentieth century with an indigenous heritage. He came from the Chukchi tribe of Siberia, and his works…

Avatud!

By David Rothenberg

On April 27th the Estonian government took down a statue of a Russian soldier in a small park next to the national library in the capital city of Tallinn. Local Russians, nearly a third of the 1.5 million…