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Endnotes, September 2024

Posted on August 31, 2024 by leslie

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 →

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Flying Blind

Posted on August 16, 2024 by leslie

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 →

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The Knot of Human Death and Fate

Posted on August 7, 2024 by leslie

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 →

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Endnotes, August 2024

Posted on July 31, 2024 by leslie

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 →

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Mea Culpa

Posted on July 19, 2024 by leslie

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 →

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A Curate’s Egg; review of Edgar

Posted on July 10, 2024 by leslie

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 →

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Physics Envy

Posted on July 5, 2024 by leslie

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 →

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Endnotes, July 2024

Posted on June 28, 2024 by leslie

Endnotes, July 2024 In this edition: rare English String Quartets from Tremula Records * Homage, by Randall Svane, reviewed by Stuart Millson The more one travels to music venues beyond the metropolitan centres ~ Mid-Wales Opera in Brecon (now de-funded … Continue reading →

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Romans and their Levantine Ways

Posted on June 26, 2024 by leslie

Romans and their Levantine Ways Hannah M. Cotton, ROMAN RULE AND JEWISH LIFE, Collected Papers, edited by Ofer Pogorelsky, reviewed by Darrell Sutton Hannah Cotton is the Shalom Horowitz Professor of Classical Studies Emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. … Continue reading →

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Front Loading

Posted on June 16, 2024 by leslie

Front Loading, by Bill Hartley It’s not hard to find a Wetherspoon pub in our larger towns and cities. There are more than 800 of them in Britain and Ireland. Last year the company reported its largest ever volume of … Continue reading →

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