Notes From the Underground of Lionel Menhuin Rolfe - by Umberto Tosi
Writer Lionel Menuhin Rolfe with pal Oliver in 2010, both gone now. Here we are again, down to the last page of another year's calendar. Time to celebrate the holidays - and think about what I've done, if anything, to make my 2018 worthwhile. I know. It's been a long while since we relied on actual calendars - although I love them. Like maps, they've been swallowed up by our smartphones. But whether marked on 4-color glossy paper or digital screens, it's still a long way from May to December, as the Noel Coward song goes. The chill rainy dawning of this December strikes me as particularly poignant given the recent death of a long-time friend and esteemed colleague, Lionel Menuhin Rolfe , He passed away on November 6 in a Glendale, California medical facility, at age 76, of a heart attack after many months of complications from diabetes, a stroke and painful infections following a fall. Lionel was prolific author, essayist, raconteur, outspoken leftis...