Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Law and Custom

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A sequel of sorts to Manners, Duties, and Society. Bill McGurn has a noteworthy piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal  in which he ...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Liebst du mich?

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– Schubert . Schwanengesang - Ständchen (Rellstab) [ German & English Text via lieder.net ] – Mozart . Das Veilchen, KV.476 (Goeth...

Bernstein on Beethoven, Mozart, and Music

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From the Unanswered Questions Norton series of talks at Harvard, given in 1973. The series, happily, is available in paperback and on DVD...

A Terrifying Rhetorician?

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Martin Amis has a column in yesterday's Guardian in which he puts contemporary intellectual, author, and famed debated Christopher Hitc...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Christ is Risen!

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Christos anesti! Khristos voskrese! Christus resurrexit! Part 2

Great Composers: Bach

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From the 1997 BBC Documentary narrated by Kenneth Branagh and featuring Georg Solti, Charles Rosen, Zuzana Parmova, and Michael Tilson Thom...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Himmelskönig, sei willkommen

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J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV.182, Chorus 'Himmelskönig, sei willkommen' Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, King of heaven, welcome, Laß au...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Well-Temperament with Trevor John Stephenson

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Another wonderful and enlightening discussion of temperament with Trevor John Stephenson. Part I | Part II

Tom Shippey on Tolkien

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Medievalist and scholar of modern fantasy and science fiction Tom Shippey on J. R. R. Tolkien and "filling the gaps" of medieval ...

The Politics of Leisure

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It is curious the following pair of articles came across my desk in the same week, Terry Eagleton's encomium for Marx in The Chronicle o...