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Bravo, Music Choice!
Yesterday, with trepidation, I turned my TV to Music Choice’s channel 1942. What I feared was the same fucking Bruckner symphony I’d heard on the channel every day for the past week. What I got wasn’t Bruckner. Music Choice, per … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged Bruckner, classical music, Gilbert and Sullivan, Music Choice, Spectrum Channel 1942
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The eternal mystery which carries me through the days
The New York Times’s obit for pianist Radu Lupu, sent me back to adolescence and a conversation with my mother. She had been considering what careers might suit her oldest child. (Sorry, Mom, for putting this into parentheses, but years … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Mysteries of Life, The Facts of Life
Tagged Chamber Music Society, classical music, David Finckel, Galileo, Galileo Galilei, Johan Sebastian Bach, JS Bach, Lincoln Center, mathematics, Radu Lupu, serious music, Sviatoslav Richter, the universal language, Vincenzo Galilei, Well Tempered Clavier, Wu Han
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