Monthly Archives: February 2014

Entertaining Scholarship

A cheap entertainer who fancies himself a writer was the judgment pronounced by a colleague who had no idea that her words would come bouncing back to me, and in short order. I took her dig in stride, figuring that: … Continue reading

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On the Shoulders, In the Shadow

You gotta admire the sheer cheek of conductors Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, and Osmo Vänskä. They’ve done something that requires serious levels of chutzpah, guts like no tomorrow, cajones the size of basketballs. That something: record the Beethoven … Continue reading

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Two Henriads

Of late I’ve been living in the Henriad, that glorious quartet of Shakespeare plays that dramatize the turbulent times from the deposition of Richard II through Henry V’s trumph at Agincourt. Though they’re classified as histories, in fact the Henriad … Continue reading

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