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Sunday, October 26, 2025
Kind of Blue: The Making of a Jazz Masterpiece
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Cover of Kind of Blue (Columbia CS 8163). Photo credit: Jay Maisel. Image source: HMV.com The Miles Davis sextet's Kind of Blue regu...
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Anne Sofie von Otter: Swan Song
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Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano. Photo credit: Ewa Marie Rundquist. Image source: Cal Performances The Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofi...
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Sunday, October 5, 2025
Mozart and the London Bach: Allegro
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Cover of Allegro by Ariel Dorfman, Other Press, 2025. Image source: Bookshop.org Historical novelists set themselves a doubly difficult t...
Sunday, September 14, 2025
"I will not allow books to prove anything": What Jane Austen's characters read (and why), part 5
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The Reader by Marguerite Gérard and Jean Honoré Fragonard, c. 1786. Image source: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge In her book What Jane...
Sunday, September 7, 2025
"Meaning to read more": What Jane Austen's characters read (and why), part 4
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The Reader by Marguerite Gérard and Jean Honoré Fragonard, c. 1786. Image source: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge In her book What Jane...
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