Alex Ross Gets It Right. Again.
December 11, 2010
He walks us through his current thinking about why the same people accept modernity (if not modernism) in everything except art music.
R.I.P. Hugues Cuenod
December 7, 2010
The tenor when 102 years old
A great artist, celebrated here before, has died, aged 108.
UPDATE: The Washington Post has a fine, short obituary now.
And the New York Times chimes in.
(Photo by Robert White)
Trove of Unknown Picassos Emerges
November 30, 2010
It seems to me that the scandal of the story is not that they possess them but that they kept them in a trunk in the garage!
“It’s Called High Culture Because It Operates at a Higher Level”
November 24, 2010
The director David McVicar speaks his mind in a six-minute video.
And What Did YOU Do in the Weimar Republic?
November 21, 2010
I’ve Seen Music-Making Do It, Too
November 18, 2010
This woman’s experience is worth more than many volumes of theory.
Will a Middle Ground Do?
November 16, 2010
Reading this short article led to some soul-searching. Which kind of person was I at dinner last night — and which am I fundamentally? Does being good partners in promiscuous social conversation make us shallow? Does applying the Ignatian principle of suiting the conversation to the company risk making one a unmoored sophisticate? Is it not possible to be fruitfully committed to, say, music and literature while still being able to range freely in the interests of other people? What about the people who say, “Oh, you’re a musician. We must talk about music,” whether we want to talk about music with them or not?
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