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Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Alison Bechdel: The Secret to Superhuman Strength
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Image source: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman Strength (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) is the t...
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Doris Day: An appreciation
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Doris Day around the time of Tea for Two (1950). Image source: Billboard I had long thought Doris Day only worthy of disdain. She was the...
Friday, July 23, 2021
Mozart and Salieri: The School of Jealousy
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François Boucher, Lovers in a Park, 1758 (detail). Image source: Timken Museum of Art In my previous post Mozart and Salieri: The Magician...
Thursday, July 1, 2021
Steel-True: Barbara Stanwyck
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Victoria Wilson, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940 . Simon and Schuster, 2013. Barbara Stanwyck, born as Ruby Stevens, was...
Thursday, June 24, 2021
2021 Boston Early Music Festival and Fringe
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Ensemble Correspondances performing in an empty theater for BEMF 2021 For fans of music composed before 1800, June means the return of the...
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