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Gustavo Dudamel takes over the reins of the Vienna Philhamronic’s annual New Year’s concert; a disc of chamber music by Andre Previn.
Read MoreThe trio’s musical offerings were substantial and not the easiest things for an occasional group to pull together.
Read MoreWhile sound is certainly important, and language in the proper hands has its own music, syllabic harmonies need not be trumpeted as though they were the foundation of good prose.
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I am beginning to suspect that Franz Schreker was the most effective of the many semi-forgotten opera composers who were active in the German lands during the first decades of the twentieth century (that is, ones less well known today than Strauss, Berg, and Kurt Weill).
Read MoreLike James Baldwin, Alain Mabanckou is striving to see beyond comforting or righteous notions and grasp a world full of movement, migration, diversity, and unexpected mixtures.
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Berkeley’s Nelson reinforces my sense that many fine composers of the twentieth century have largely slid off the map because they did not cater to the obsession of many critics and academics with “the New at all cost.”
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Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025