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From Jonathan Williams’ Strung out with Elgar on a Hill, as reprinted in THE LOCO LOGODAEDALIST IN SITU: Selected Poems 1968-70 (1971). A final essay from the Musikfest Berlin concerts I attended in September: Sofia Gubaidulina, Bruckner, and Hans Werner Henze, with a coda on Rudi Dutschke, bricks, and windows. Preview below, and full post on Substack.In his book Strung out with Elgar on a Hill, the poet Jonathan Williams writes:thinking of Anton Bruckner,the Master of Sentences,an old man in Wien,absolutely alone,alone his whole bleeding lifeThe poem ends:heaven in his heavy heart,loins locked apart by heavenly art . . .laterhe...