I've often wished I could skip the first watching of an opera, and go straight to the second. Opera is a multi-media spectacle, but I'm a word-oriented person. On my…
I'll take Mozart or Rossini over Puccini most days of the year, but (OK, husband and daughter, I admit it) I do enjoy Tosca. Alphonse Mucha, who created a poster for…
NIneteenth-century poetry and exploding Looney Tunes villains. Thomas Moore set foot on the road to fame and a regular income in 1808, with the publication of the first of ten…
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…
The is my final post in the Hamilton Musical series: a very personal selection of Hamilton's writings from 1798 to 1804 that reminds me what I like so much about…
In which Callender accuses Hamilton of speculation, and Hamilton replies: June to August 1797. [NOTE: My latest thoughts on the Reynolds Affair are available in Alexander Hamilton and the Reynolds Affair.…
In which Reynolds accuses Hamilton of speculation: December 1792. [NOTE: My latest thoughts on the Reynolds Affair are available in Alexander Hamilton and the Reynolds Affair. For a shorter version,…
In which Hamilton has a torrid affair, and pays a price. [NOTE: My latest thoughts on the Reynolds Affair are available in Alexander Hamilton and the Reynolds Affair. For a…
Hamilton proposes to stimulate manufacturing in order to help make Americans prosperous. This post on Hamilton's Report on Manufactures (submitted to Congress on December 5, 1791) is the third of three posts…
Second of three posts on Hamilton's financial program, 1790-1791. Last week's post, the introduction to this series, included a chronology of Hamilton's major writings as secretary of the Treasury and an…