Trumpet Rhapsodies

<p>In 2014 author Donald Newlove (1928-2021) put together a collection of articles he had written between 1954 and 1981 that had previously appeared in such publications as <em>Esquire Evergreen Review The Village Voice</em> and<em> New York Magazine</em>. He titled this compilation <em>Trumpet Rhapsodies</em> describing it as a kind of autobiography of my early days as a writer and of my search for a language that trumpeted my youth.</p><p>The subject matter of these 15 pieces is wide-ranging. Among the topics Newlove writes of being chosen to play Taps at a military funeral despite being a less-than-amateur musician witnessing (and participating in) the filming of Andy Warhol's first musical meeting Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda a spirited dinner at the home of American poet Robert Lowell his own venture into filmmaking a run-in with Florida racists and law enforcement and the secrets of New York City's Strand Book Store.</p>