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Meaning and Memory
I made a trip to DC a couple of weeks ago. A co-worker told me she was going to go with some business colleagues to Wolf Trap for a concert. Since I am known by a few folks in the company as one of those “music types”....
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Offertorium
I took a trip to Boston this past week. The youth choir from my church here in Dallas was touring the Boston area, and among them were my two teenage children. I took the opportunity to attend to some business....
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Change
My friend...Kim Alexander and I have often pondered this topic as we have observed over the years in our conference participants a tension between those who privilege the traditions and heroes of the past, and those who privilege the new and the modern, advancing a cause somewhat akin to progress.
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On “Artistic Temperament” & Other Paradoxes
One of the benefits of having some really smart friends is that their observations often mingle together in my inbox. An email came a few days ago pointing me to the announcement that the Dallas Opera was hosting a series of dialogues around their upcoming opera season. We were both attracted by the proposed title for the dialogue surrounding their production of Puccini’s La Bohème....
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Ars Poetica
At the beginning of the score of his Valses nobles et sentimentales, composer Maurice Ravel placed a dedication based a quote from Henri de Régnier: “le plaisir délicieux et toujours nouveau d’une occupation inutile” (to the delightful and always novel pleasure of a useless occupation).
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Current Issue
Issue 71
Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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