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Deconstruction Time
Deconstruction Time Don H Doyle, The Age of Reconstruction; How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World, Don H Doyle, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 2024, hb, 369pp, reviewed by Leslie Jones In Garibaldi, Invention of a Hero, … Continue reading
Endnotes, October 2024
Endnotes, October 2024 In this edition: more Bruckner from the archives * Dvorak from the Czech homeland * contemporary music from England and America, reviewed by Stuart Millson SOMM Records continues to open its vast treasury of vintage Bruckner recordings, … Continue reading
An Arbitrary Colourist
An Arbitrary Colourist, Van Gogh, Poets & Lovers Exhibition at the National Gallery, 14 September 2024 – 19 January 2025, press preview 11 September; Catalogue of the exhibition, Cornelia Homburg, featuring the essay ‘Art of the Future’; reviewed by Leslie … Continue reading
Endnotes, September 2024
Endnotes, September 2024 In this edition: The Man from the Sky; orchestral music by Gerard Schurmann; wood nymphs, country songs and planets at the Proms; two ‘lost’ works by Vaughan Williams, reviewed by Stuart Millson British composer Gerard Schurmann (1924-2020) … Continue reading
Flying Blind
Flying Blind Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster, Adam Higginbotham, Simon and Shuster, pp 576, reviewed by Bill Hartley Governments can’t resist projects on a gargantuan scale and when they go wrong the disaster is of a magnitude … Continue reading
The Knot of Human Death and Fate
The Knot of Human Death and Fate Dan Stone, Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival, Palgrave Macmillan, electronic version, 2024, reviewed by Leslie Jones In From Death-Camp to Existentialism: A Psychiatrist’s Path to a New Therapy (1946), … Continue reading
Endnotes, August 2024
Endnotes, August 2024 In this edition: Bruckner’s String Quintet; From Meadow to Mayfair, with Eric Coates, reviewed by Stuart Millson 200 years ago this year, Anton Bruckner was born — a boy who would be shaped by his rural environment in … Continue reading
Mea Culpa
Mea Culpa, by Bill Hartley The City of York and County of North Yorkshire now has an elected mayor. The fact that this was going to happen may have come as a surprise to many in the local electorate. Judging … Continue reading
A Curate’s Egg; review of Edgar
A Curate’s Egg; review of Edgar Edgar, drama lirico by Giacomo Puccini in three acts (1905 version), libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, director Ruth Knight, City of London Sinfonia and the Opera Holland Park Chorus conducted by Naomi Woo, Opera Holland … Continue reading
Physics Envy
Physics Envy On the Couch; Writers Analyse Sigmund Freud, edited by Andrew Blauner, Princeton University Press, Princeton & Oxford, 346pp, h.b., reviewed by Leslie Jones The twenty-five contributors to On the Couch consider the founder of Psychoanalysis from a range … Continue reading