Trio
by Norman Lock

Description

Norman Lock’s Trio combines his acclaimed Joseph Cornell’s Operas and Émigrés with Grim Tales, his riff on the Brothers Grimm. These masterful works of the imagination demonstrate Lock’s innate ability to transform the fanciful into the tactile. He makes new things in exquisite words.

A sample from Émigrés: “A very old émigré, who was each day growing more forgetful, woke up in the dead of night, put on his best suit and tie, shined his shoes, put on his best hat (a rakish borsalino), and went to find the dancehall where – fifty years before, in the distant country of his youth – he had danced the tango, magnificently, with a girl whose silk dress he could still feel against his palms.”

From Joseph Cornells’ Operas: “Liszt died young and Mad Ludwig drowned himself in the Starnberger and Lola Montes became a circus exhibit, but ah! the impresario answered, they flew, you know, until the end they all of them defied gravity such was the strength of their desire – who, we wondered, who then is Hubble peering at through his telescope, Lola Montes having long ago died? from his opera box Joseph Cornell said: her remnant of light still desiring.”