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Leonard Bernstein conducting Brahms’s “Academic Festival Overture.
Leonard Bernstein conducting Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture." He is one of the instruments — just watch him. Like a method actor, in a way. He dances with the baton. And the music ends with…
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Ahmos Zu-Bolton: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________________________________________________________ Ravis My brother turns his life insideout, from a jail in Leesville, from a half-way house in Lake Charles, from a…
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This Day in History: November 8 [by David Lehman]
Today in 1957 Pan Am flight 7 went downin the Pacific Ocean Three years later Kennedy was elected presidentThe Viet Cong ambushed the 173rd Airbornein Operation Hump,1965, which should have madeMcNamara rethink the whole thingIn…
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Adrienne Su recommends “Poems in the Manner Of…”
2020 has not brought a windfall of reading time for me, never mind writing time. I read plenty, but it’s mostly news: I can’t stop checking to see which part of what sky is…
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“Jan Brueghel the Elder’s ‘A Woodland Road with Travelers’” [by Robert Schultz]
Midway in their desperate journey they Find themselves in a dark wood. Women In skirts and domed hats carry heavy Jugs and stuffed baskets, all they now own. Men drive beasts, pigs on leashes, horses tethered To a…
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“Virginity” [by Mitch Sisskind]
They called him Tight Pants Blair and he Favored an eccentric notion of time derivedFrom A.N. Whitehead's Process and Reality.In a nutshell, Tight Pants Blair proposed that The past does exist but with a certain…
