NaBloPoMo Day 25! It’s pretty nice having one’s own in-house physician. McDoc tells me when it’s time to use my inhaler (sometimes I don’t notice …
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Miss Music Nerd
NaBloPoMo Day 24! A funny search came up on my blog stats the other day. It warrants a visit from the One Word Answer Man …
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NaBloPoMo Day 23! Not that kind of eye candy (sorry to disappoint!) 😉 A quick post today, as I’m visiting my sister-in-law, who is due …
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NaBloPoMo Day 22! You know, I have a confession to make: I thought it would be pretty easy to capture my experience of hearing Mahler’s …
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NaBloPoMo Day 21! Yesterday I gave a bit of history and background about Mahler and his 9th (including the rather important role his music has …
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NaBloPoMo Day 20! My first real date with McDoc (which, I told him, was not a date, just as our two previous dates had also …
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NaBloPoMo Day 19! Well, rats! :grr: I wanted to write my review of Mahler’s 9th today, and it occurred to me that it would be …
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NaBloPoMo Day 18! This afternoon I attended the Detroit Symphony‘s performance of Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony no. 9. I’m going to write about it, you can …
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NaBloPoMo Day 17! I lived in New York City for four years, back in the ’90s (that’s in the last century! 😯 ). I did …
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“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea?”
I came across this quote the other day in a post about musical responses to great tragedies: “Requiems,” by Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker.
Ross’ understanding of Shakespeare’s question (which, as he mentions, Wallace Stevens cited while writing about World War II) concerns the light-in-the-darkness function that musicians serve in the face of horrific events:
How, in other words, can artists respond to news that exceeds their most extravagant nightmares?”
Happily, we can, and do, respond in many ways…
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