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John Potts delivers a Parnassian appreciation of the boy genius.

<I>The New Yorker</I>, right on the money, as usual.

Jeremy Denk opines, "Something that is definitely not chopped liver literally, metaphorically, or in any other way is the slow movement of Schumann's D minor Trio. (Please see: <I>The Art of the Graceful Segue</I>, by Jeremy Denk, Hyperion Books, 2031, p. 5832.)"

This is one of the best profiles ever run in <I>The New Yorker</I>&mdash;and one of the longest. It's worth it.

David Mehegan remembers his grandfather's devotion to the <I>Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books</I>. Mehegan contends that the "Five-Foot Shelf" was the lodestone for "the life of a totally successful human being."

Father Athanasius Kircher explains just about everything&mdash;and the pictures are gorgeous.

<A HREF="http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/12/merry_christmas_from_ahn… Gann</A> has posted Schoenberg's <I>Weihnachtsmusik</I> for our Christmas bliss. If you think Arnold never wrote a melody you'd like, take a listen to this gorgeous setting of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming."

Because nothing says Christmas like marimbas and wild bass! BTW, if the marimbas look backwards, it's because the clip was designed to be projected in one of those film jukeboxes, where they were in fact viewed from the other side.
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Christmas without Pops? Unthinkable!

The 50 greatest cartoons of all time? Could be.