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Endnotes, March-April 2025

Posted on March 8, 2025 by leslie

[Bruckner c 1892, credit Wikipedia] Endnotes, March-April 2025 In this edition: Archive performances of Bruckner from SOMM Records * Rare Holst from EM Records * Coronation Procession, by Ruth Gipps, reviewed by Stuart Millson A belated, final salute from The … Continue reading →

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First Century Miracle Worker

Posted on March 5, 2025 by leslie

First Century Miracle Worker Gerard Boter (ed.), Flavius Philostratus: Vita Appolonii Tyanei, 2022. DeGruyter. Pp. I-LXIII, 1-322. $91.99. Gerard Boter (ed.), Critical Notes on Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana. 2023. DeGruyter. Pp. I-VIII, 1-317. $131.99. Reviewed by Darrell Sutton … Continue reading →

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Shooting Turkeys

Posted on January 26, 2025 by leslie

Shooting Turkeys, by Bill Hartley Kris Kristofferson, who died last year aged 88, never wanted to be an actor. Indeed, his legacy rests chiefly on his song writing compositions which have been performed by more than 500 artists. Besides being … Continue reading →

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The Final Pandemic

Posted on January 18, 2025 by leslie

The Final Pandemic: An Antidote to Medical Tyranny (2024), written and published by Dr Mark Bailey & Dr Samantha Bailey, foreword by Professor Tim Noakes, a book review and discussion by Dr A. R. Kneen The official narrative of ‘the pandemic’ could … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, January-February 2025

Posted on January 4, 2025 by leslie

Endnotes, January-February 2025 In this edition: piano music from early 19th-century French women composers; 20th-century British chamber music. Reviewed by Stuart Millson New from the Presences Compositrices label comes a revelatory glimpse into the musical world of the late-18th and … Continue reading →

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Bradford, a ‘House Divided’

Posted on December 15, 2024 by leslie

                    Bradford, a ‘House Divided’, by Bill Hartley At the ironically named Bradford Transport Interchange, the bus station has been closed since January of this year, because of ‘structural problems’. The … Continue reading →

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The Question of Unworthy Life

Posted on November 30, 2024 by leslie

The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century; Dagmar Herzog, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2024, 302pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones According to Dagmar Herzog, the history of racial hygiene (a term coined by biologist Alfred Ploetz) … Continue reading →

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Romance to Realities

Posted on November 12, 2024 by leslie

Romance to Realities, The Northern Landscape and Shifting Identities, an exhibition reviewed by William Hartley This is the second exhibition held at Newcastle’s Laing Art Gallery in 2024. Romance to Realities is a ticketed event which chronicles two hundred years … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, November-December 2024

Posted on November 1, 2024 by leslie

Endnotes, November-December 2024 In this edition: Walter Braunfels, ‘lost’ Germanic romanticism * Bruckner from SOMM * Symphony No. 4 by Matthew Taylor * Christmas music from Albion, reviewed by Stuart Millson The Dutton Epoch label is one of those enterprising … Continue reading →

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Bloody Gori

Posted on October 12, 2024 by leslie

 Bloody Gori, by Bill Hartley There is a museum dedicated to Stalin in his birthplace, the Georgian town of Gori. It doesn’t contain many items which actually belonged to him, since Stalin wasn’t the acquisitive sort, at least in the … Continue reading →

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