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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 3d

During his teenage years, #PaulBowles wrote a series of poems, some of which were published in the University of Virginia magazine. Check paulbowles.org for more.

Air to the Sea, early poems, manuscript, c. 1923-1927 (courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, at The University of Texas at Austin).

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 8d

#PaulBowles's personal library includes over three thousand volumes that he collected during the 50 years he lived in #Tangier. His copious #library is now available in digitized form for public consultation.

Check the full catalogue: www.paulbowles.org/library/visu....

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 12d

'Scenes from the Door: The Ford" and "Scenes from the Door: Red Faces', were composed by #PaulBowles in collaboration with #GertrudeStein.

These two songs have now been recorded and collected in the album "Paul Bowles: Dream Cantata and Selected Songs".

paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 16d

Listen to Paul Bowles reading "Baptism of Solitude": from the collection of essays Their Heads are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: www.paulbowles.org/writings/Pau...

#reading #paulbowles #authorreading #essays

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 19d

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life: 1937

Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.

#paulbowles #JaneAuer #JohnLatouche #GeorgeBalanchine #HenriFord

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 26d

"Dream Cantata & a selection of early song", is a collection of lost scores by #PaulBowles.

#DreamCantata was recorded at The Yehudi Menuhin Hall, London, in 2024.

Except “My Sister’s Hand in Mine”, no other recordings of these pieces are extant.

Listen: paulbowles.lnk.to/dreamcantata

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · 28d

Paul Bowles made this comment while recalling the experience of writing his autobiography, "Without Stopping". He was glad to know that he would never need to repeat the experience!

#paulbowles #autobiography #deadlines #writerslife

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Sep 7

Use the search engine to browse the different types of work, listen to music samples and access archived scores. You can also have direct access to scores for sale and to music available on streaming platforms.
Start here: www.paulbowles.org/music/musica...

Paul Bowles

'A night with thunder in the sky he packed his bag and left,' Paul Bowles wrote in a short autobiographical piece in 1986—referring to an escape from his parents' home in New York City to Paris in…

www.paulbowles.org

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Paul Bowles has the most comprehensive database on the musical work of Paul Bowles.

#paulbowlesmusic #paulbowles #composer #americancomposer

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Sep 4

Paul Bowles' life in 1936.

Learn more on paulbowles.org

#paulbowles #orsonwelles #johnhouseman #antifascism

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Aug 31

About the writing of "Without Stopping. An Autobiography", Bowles would comment:

"It seems to me that deadlines are all too likely to produce dead books."

Learn more on www.paulbowles.org

#PaulBowles #withoutstopping #autobiography #deadlines #writing #writers

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Aug 26

In 1928, Paul Bowles enrolled at the University of Virginia, where he experimented with inhaling ether and came into contact with a group of intellectuals. Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.

#VirginiaUniversity #Intellectuals #paulbowles

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Aug 22

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life.
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.

#paulbowles #BelaBartok #HenryDunham #RudyBurkhardt #JosephLosey #VernonDuke

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Aug 17

By the time of his death in #Tangier, Morocco, in 1999, #PaulBowles had become a legendary figure in modern literary culture. The range of his literary work includes poems, #shortstories, novels, #travelwriting, essays, music criticism, autobiography, and translations. www.paulbowles.org #gorevidal

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Aug 13

8 × 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements: 1957 #experimentalfilm directed by #HansRichter, with contributing work by #MarcelDuchamp and #JeanCocteau.

Watch 16' of the film with #PaulBowles and #AhmedYacoubi in the film section of paulbowles.org website.

#cocteau #duchamp #film #phone

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Aug 8

Year by year, milestones in Paul Bowels’s life.
Find out more at www.paulbowles.org.

#paulbowles #marijuana #composer

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Aug 4

Are we travellers or tourists?

#PaulBowles was certainly a traveller.

Find out more about his life at www.paulbowles.org.

#americanwriters #theshelteringsky #quotes

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jul 30

Sixteen-year-old Paul Bowles was deeply impressed by a performance of Stravinsky's The Firebird at Carnegie Hall.

Discover the chronology of Paul Bowles' life at www.paulbowles.org.

#paulbowles #Stravinsky #firebird

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jul 23

The official Paul Bowles website features a series of songs written in Bowles' early style (1932–1940) that were never previously recorded. These were produced in 2024 at the Yehudi Menuhin Hall in London: www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b...

#music #soprano #villiersdavid

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jul 16

Films based on the works of Paul Bowles:

🎞️ The Sheltering Sky, Bertolucci, 1990.
🎞️ Halfmoon (based on “The Story of Lahcen and Idir”, “Call at Corazón”, “Allal”), Schleich, 1995.
🎞️ The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid (based on “A Distant Episode”), Rivers, 2015.

Have you seen them all?

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jul 9

“The pieces with the greatest, and those with the smallest amount, of Arabic influence, are both to be found, strangely enough, in the same country: Morocco. ” — Paul Bowles

www.paulbowles.org

#morocco #paulbowles #music

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jul 2

In 1933, after travelling in Europe and Morocco, Paul Bowles, aged 23, reaches Ghardaïa, a town in Saharan Algeria. There, he uses the harmonium in the town's church to compose a cantata, using his own French text.
Learn more about #PaulBowles #biography: www.paulbowles.org.
#Algeria #sahara

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jun 25

Listen to unreleased #PaulBowles #music! You can find recordings of his compositions at www.paulbowles.org/music/paul-b....

In The Platinum Forest, 1932
Performed by: Soprano: Sofia Kirwan-Baez
Piano: Zeynep Özsuca, 2024

#soprano #opera #piano

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jun 18

This quote by Paul Bowles is from the book "Next to Nothing: Collected Poems, 1926-1977", published by Black Sparrow Press in 1981.

Find out more: www.paulbowles.org/writings/Poe...

#paulbowles #collectedpoems #poetry #poems #quote #quotes #morocco

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Paul Bowles @paulbowles.bsky.social · Jun 11

Notebook with handwritten notes for Bowles’s autobiography Without Stopping (1972) (courtesy of University of Delaware Library Special Collections and Museums).

Have a look at the manuscript in the archives section of Paul Bowles' official website.

www.paulbowles.org
#PaulBowles #WithoutStopping

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