In my last post, I highlighted the work of Kerstin Thorborg, a Swedish contralto. Today, I'd like to highlight the work of a contemporar...

I just finished reading Jay Nordlinger's New York Chronicle review of the 2010 Mostly Mozart Festival in the  September issue of The Ne...

By chance this morning, I came across a recording of Kerstin Thorborg (1896-1970), a Swedish contralto, singing Erda's warning to Wotan,...

Updated: Please see below. I feel remiss for not mentioning in our recent discussion of Santayana's Three Philosophical Poets: Lucre...

I randomly selected a day in the Lenten calendar (Friday of the 3rd Week in Lent) to compare the readings in the ancient Roman liturgy and ...

I was doing some research and came across this painting which seems not at all to be mentioned on the internet, or at least not identified. ...

If you read enough Classical literature you may, as I have, become a bit of stickler when it comes to argument and rhetoric. Read any Classi...

For Saturday, August 7 through Friday, August 27 2010. 1) From Mises Daily , Tibor R. Machan on "A Problem with Aristotle's Ethic...

. . .  with something in common. 1) Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor - IV. Presto-Adagio 2) Symphony No. 60 in C major - IV., V., V...

This is Part II of our look at philosophical ideas represented in art. It comes on the heels of my stumbling upon and reading George Santay...