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In Light of Cancelled Creation, Haydn at Home
With live concerts suspended all over the world, among the casualties was a performance of Haydn’s oratorio The Creation by the ensemble Arcangelo at London’s Barbican Centre on 1 April. When I noticed...
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Mozart, Epidemics and Hope
I have always been fascinated by the imposing Pestsäule (Plague Column) in Vienna, erected by Emperor Leopold I soon after the plague epidemic of 1679 that killed as many as 75,000 people. Situated on...
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Songs for a Sad Season
Singer-songwriter John Prine fell ill with the Covid-19 virus in March and eventually succumbed to it on April 7. He was a balladeer of the common man, a poet of everyday life with a knack for folding...
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Loneliness, Helping Hands, TRUTH: One hundred voices on Covid-19
Until December 2019, I was in Nanjing, some five hundred kilometres from Wuhan where the first cases of the new lung disease were then discovered. When things unfolded in January, I initially felt a...
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A History of Polish Theatre
A History of Polish Theatre offers a new and original look at the complex pasts of Polish theatre. The editors wished to move away from strictly devised forms of periodization, and instead build...
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Performing Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution, which began with slave uprisings in the French colony of Saint Domingue in 1791 and resulted in the 1804 declaration of Haitian independence, was a major part of the Age of...
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Puccini in Context
Image Credit: Elvira Puccini, Giacomo Puccini, Antonio Puccini Archivio Storico Ricordi, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Giacomo Puccini is one of...
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Listening to the Unexpected: Monteverdi and the Marvellous
How do we learn to listen? Like most worthwhile things, listening well takes time, practice, and perseverance. While it might seem like good music ought to reveal its fruits intuitively to curious...
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