Monday, August 20, 2012
Movie Review: Pianomania
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Directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. 2009. Stefan Knüpfer is not a famous man. His name graces no concert marquees or programs. S...
Monday, August 13, 2012
Robert Hughes on Caravaggio
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Art critic Robert Hughes wrote and narrated this documentary on Caravaggio in 1975. The section below begins Part III, the film's highl...
Movie Review: The Bourne Legacy
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Directed by Tony Gilroy. 2012. I entered The Bourne Legacy having retained nothing from the preceding Bourne films, save whiplash. I l...
Friday, August 10, 2012
Mozart: An Annotated Selection
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I just purchased Robert Harris' 1991 book, "What to Listen for in Mozart" and to my surprise what did I find inside? Why anno...
Monday, August 6, 2012
Patience, Despair
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Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. –Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary So we're happily rocking...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
On the Displeasure of Noise
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The Street Enters the House Umberto Boccioni, 1911 It is probable if not unavoidable he who enjoys music detests noise. It is inevitabl...
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises
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Directed by Christopher Nolan. 2012. Maybe it's time we all quit trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day. –Alfred ...
Monday, July 16, 2012
Essay & Review: Artwork of Middle Earth
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Few modern books, if any, have inspired as much artwork as those of J. R. R. Tolkien. The obvious but incomplete reason is that Tolkien wro...
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Socialism: What's in a Name?
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We were fortunate this past week in being treated to political science theses from two acclaimed film directors, Milos Forman and Joss W...
Friday, July 13, 2012
Sacred Music from the Middle Ages to Today
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Update: This video after several thousand views was blocked by several companies, evidently because they don't understand the concept o...
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