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Paul Reisler
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“When I write, I have to write from something that’s familiar to me,” he said. One of his songs draws on the work of Kentucky poet Wendell Berry. The theme is the “strength country people have that keeps them going," so he drew from his love of the rural life and firsthand experiences in Rappahannock and West Virginia. He plans to perform that piece, “Working in Remembered Ways,” during the Exchange program.
Although he and Trapezoid have performed hundreds and hundreds of times all across the country, playing in his own community is “completely different. ... I’m a performer, but at the heart of any performance is my relationship to the community.” Listening to his work, those who also live in Rappahannock have more awareness of “what you’re talking about,” he said. “My music is very clearly music written of and from a rural environment. ... I’d be lost in a place like (New York City). I need peace in order to work. I need quiet, I need to be alone.”
While isolation may help Mr. Reisler in the creative process, he’s no hermit, locking himself away in order to compose.
He and wife Julie Portman are among the county’s most prominent artists, and they recently traveled to Richmond to protest cuts to the state arts agency, the-Virginia Commission for the Arts. ”
“Arts in the community is important, so I’m willing to do whatever I have to do to encourage it in my state,” he said. The same could be said for his efforts to support and
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