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Batter My Heart
My across-the-street neighbor, violinist Pia Liptak, had to prepare and play Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 while her colleague and close friend—the young, internationally acclaimed Japanese koto player Ryuko Mizutani—was dying of cancer. Listening to the CD of....
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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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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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Without Bach, God Would be Third-Rate
I’ve just had the rare experience of viewing Die Stille Vor Bach (The Silence Before Bach), the 2007 film by Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella. And, alas, the experience is destined to remain rare: Portabella won’t allow VHS or DVD transfers of any of his works. So we can catch this extraordinary new film—cinematic meditative essay, really—only in the occasional art theater that will show it.
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Issue 72
Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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