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Kyle Gann has posted Schoenberg's Weihnachtsmusik 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."
Father Athanasius Kircher explains just about everything—and the pictures are gorgeous.
David Mehegan remembers his grandfather's devotion to the Harvard Classics: The Five-Foot Shelf of Books. Mehegan contends that the "Five-Foot Shelf" was the lodestone for "the life of a totally successful human being."
This is one of the best profiles ever run in The New Yorker—and one of the longest. It's worth it.
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: The Art of the Graceful Segue, by Jeremy Denk, Hyperion Books, 2031, p. 5832.)"
I saw JB in concert about this time and it was a life altering experience. I probably wasn't the only white boy-child in the audience, but it sure felt like it. I wasn't unwelcome—I was simply out of place. Once the Flames started playing, and we music geeks were pulled towards the stage, I felt right at home. JB was mesmerizing.
Phil Ford deserves a Physics prize for his explanation of time as it relates to the beat in the work of James Brown. It's a delightful read.
Jason Victor Serinus, who sent it our way, suggests it might. It will certainly make your morning coffee spurt out your nose.
Jason 'splains how to get there: "Click the link [below].
Scroll down to Soprano Meltdown
Read the short paragraph
Turn up your computer speakers
Click on the link
Be prepared."