Jeremy Cavaterra
@cavaterra.bsky.social
Composer | Pianist
Composer-in-Residence,
Young People's Symphony Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/@JeremyCavaterra
Composer-in-Residence,
Young People's Symphony Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/@JeremyCavaterra
Someone's house, Los Angeles. I feel certain that somewhere between palm trees and starlight, Marlene Dietrich is about to glide through those doors in liquid satin and pause just long enough to accept applause before vanishing into a waiting Mercedes Cabriolet.
(Photo courtesy Tom Biddison.)
(Photo courtesy Tom Biddison.)
December 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Someone's house, Los Angeles. I feel certain that somewhere between palm trees and starlight, Marlene Dietrich is about to glide through those doors in liquid satin and pause just long enough to accept applause before vanishing into a waiting Mercedes Cabriolet.
(Photo courtesy Tom Biddison.)
(Photo courtesy Tom Biddison.)
(From The Go-Between)
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
(From The Go-Between)
I'd really love to see the letter that prompted this response from Shirley Jackson. 🤣
December 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'd really love to see the letter that prompted this response from Shirley Jackson. 🤣
The sketch looks a lot like a younger John Hoyt.
December 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The sketch looks a lot like a younger John Hoyt.
Man-eating butterflies.
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Man-eating butterflies.
Happy 122nd to Cornell Woolrich, shadowy godfather of noir. From The Bride Wore Black to Black Angel to Black Alibi, his “black” novels evoke a world where dread seeps through every doorway and cast a spell that crime fiction never escaped. His influence still coils through the genre like smoke. 🖤
December 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Happy 122nd to Cornell Woolrich, shadowy godfather of noir. From The Bride Wore Black to Black Angel to Black Alibi, his “black” novels evoke a world where dread seeps through every doorway and cast a spell that crime fiction never escaped. His influence still coils through the genre like smoke. 🖤
I always loved Sargent's vision of her as Lady Macbeth!
December 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I always loved Sargent's vision of her as Lady Macbeth!
I raise you this superb jazz musician...
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I raise you this superb jazz musician...
And here I am reading that very passage nearly forty years ago...
November 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
And here I am reading that very passage nearly forty years ago...
Perhaps she means more horse than its customary quotient!
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Perhaps she means more horse than its customary quotient!
Check out Richard Strauss's riveting opera (1905) which uses Wilde's play almost verbatim (albeit in German)!
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Check out Richard Strauss's riveting opera (1905) which uses Wilde's play almost verbatim (albeit in German)!
Author: Joseph Gage
Publisher: Eagle EB69
Year: 1956
Artist: Unknown (sadly)
Publisher: Eagle EB69
Year: 1956
Artist: Unknown (sadly)
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Author: Joseph Gage
Publisher: Eagle EB69
Year: 1956
Artist: Unknown (sadly)
Publisher: Eagle EB69
Year: 1956
Artist: Unknown (sadly)
Today’s installment of my extremely serious mission to give old paperback covers their own soundtracks. 🎧 📚 Just a little composer–nerd side quest...
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Today’s installment of my extremely serious mission to give old paperback covers their own soundtracks. 🎧 📚 Just a little composer–nerd side quest...