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• ‘Der Freischütz’: Bowing out of Popular Favor?

  

  (Today marks the anniversary of composer Carl Maria von Weber‘s death. In his honor, I am reposting this piece about his most acclaimed opera.) My husband came... Read more

  The 06 June 2011 by   Galegirl
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• Opera Review: A Modern German Take on Greek Myth

  

  Henze's Phaedra Premieres in Philadelphia. Cage match: A scene from Act Two of Phaedra. Photo by Katherine Elliot, © 2011 Opera Company of... Read more

  The 06 June 2011 by   Superconductor
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• Review: Minding Frankie

  

  Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy Genre: Contemporary Fiction Pages: 295 (Ereader) From GoodReads: Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is... Read more

  The 05 June 2011 by   Bookaholic
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• The Art of Abstract Color

  

  When I was a lad and merely 8 years old, my Dad picked up a camera from a customer in lieu of cash payment. It was a Kodak Retina. That camera and I quickly... Read more

  The 04 June 2011 by   Rodjonesartist
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• Resolution to Read in June: The Future

  

  For the month of June the theme for Realizing Resonance is The Future! In my day job I forecast the future, even if only for narrow slice of reality, so this... Read more

  The 04 June 2011 by   Realizingresonance
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• WOUNDED KNEE: Sacred Ground for American Sioux Indians. Our June Feature.

  

  Red Cloud (on right with feather head-dress), chief of the Oglala Lakota Sioux, who defeated the US Cavalry in several encounters 1866-1868 (Red Cloud's War)... Read more

  The 03 June 2011 by   Kena
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• How Marcel Became Proust

  

  In one of the narrow aisles on the eighth floor of Fisher stack, at Sydney University, I came across Thierry Marchaisse's fascinating book, which deserves to... Read more

  The 03 June 2011 by   Jaac
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• Lost in (Western) Translation

  

  There is a sense in which we are all cultural narcissists. By this, I mean that because all of us are acculturated at a particular time and in a particular... Read more

  The 02 June 2011 by   Cris
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• New Book Review: “Supernatural: One Year Gone” by Rebecca Dessertine

  

  This novel had a lot going for it, because there was a nice one year gap between the fifth and sixth seasons, and it was ground that couldn’t really be covered... Read more

  The 02 June 2011 by   Entil2001
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• George Inness and I

  

  Sundown by George Inness George Inness (1825-1894) has been like a thorn in my side for the past year, so when I learned that we share the same birthday (May... Read more

  The 31 May 2011 by   Americanart
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