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Alfred, Lord Tennyson once enjoyed extraordinary popularity as a poet. His Arthurian sequence Idylls of the King undoubtedly had a great impact on Victorian and Edwardian notions of proper societal...
BELLSON, ELLINGTON & GERSHWIN
The entire jazz world mourned when Buddy Rich died earlier this year, thereby creating a vacuum, not only in the jazz drummer category in particular, but also in the genre...
BELLSON, ELLINGTON & GERSHWIN
The entire jazz world mourned when Buddy Rich died earlier this year, thereby creating a vacuum, not only in the jazz drummer category in particular, but also in the genre...
A Stunning Performance: Brahms Piano Concerto N...
I am beginning to have some kindly feelings toward Brahms, despite my lifelong conviction that he wrote wooly music. These feelings are perhaps not unrelated to MHS 4001. I have...
A Stunning Performance: Brahms Piano Concerto N...
I am beginning to have some kindly feelings toward Brahms, despite my lifelong conviction that he wrote wooly music. These feelings are perhaps not unrelated to MHS 4001. I have...
Mozart's Elevation of the Violin
As I was about to say last time when I was so rudely interrupted by the end of the Review, Mozart was not writing in one of the golden...
Mozart's Elevation of the Violin
As I was about to say last time when I was so rudely interrupted by the end of the Review, Mozart was not writing in one of the golden...
Freedom! The Aulos Ensemble Plays Johann Sebast...
Even though I know all there is to be known about the stuff whereof I write in these pages, I am basically a modest guy and make it a point...
Freedom! The Aulos Ensemble Plays Johann Sebast...
Even though I know all there is to be known about the stuff whereof I write in these pages, I am basically a modest guy and make it a point...
Nicely Recorded Performances: Poulenc's Complet...
Finally getting around to seriously reading Virgil Thomson's delightful The State of Music (the 1961 recension of the 1932 original), I was momentarily surprised to find the author citing Poulenc...
Nicely Recorded Performances: Poulenc's Complet...
Finally getting around to seriously reading Virgil Thomson's delightful The State of Music (the 1961 recension of the 1932 original), I was momentarily surprised to find the author citing Poulenc...