Learning about opera is a work in progress for me, and writing about things I don’t fully understand gives me the heebie-jeebies. So take this post as a shared pleasure rather than an informed review. Five minutes to read; 25-30 … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Excerpted and adapted from Innovators in Sculpture. Faun Teased by Children is a technical tour de force by 18-year-old Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), whose career spanned seven decades. I’m a sucker for virtuosity; and besides, this makes me laugh. Michelangelo’s figures (Moses … Continue reading
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. The is … Continue reading
This poem has always stuck in my mind because of the brilliant way de La Mare leaves the beginning of the story to the imagination. “The Listeners,” by Walter de La Mare, 1912 ‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the … Continue reading
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. In which … Continue reading
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. In which … Continue reading
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. In which … Continue reading
First an an occasional series of posts on works I’d love to visit again … or see for the first time. My choices for the Five Favorites series aren’t all works that show me new heights to aspire to. More … Continue reading
Now available: print versions (in full color) of Alexander Hamilton: A Brief Biography and Alexander Hamilton: A Friend to America, volume 1 and volume 2, which includes all my Hamilton blogs posts. For a 40% discount offer, scroll to the end of this post. Hamilton proposes … Continue reading