One of the major topics of the London Book Fair this year, as indeed in many previous years, concerns the digitisation of books and how tha...
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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Open your Golden Gate
2014 has seen the release of two chronicles of San Francisco. The first is what has been announced as the final part of Armistead Maupin...
From Abgesang to Zurich
Wagner created new worlds within his operas, yet he also generated a new world by them. Has there been any other composer, including Bach, M...
The Best of 2013... in Books on Music
1. Forbidden Music by Michael Haas (Yale University Press) The product of years of dedicated service putting 'Entartete Musik' back...
The Best of 2013... in Books
1. A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald (Hamish Hamilton) A bittersweet reminder of the glories of Sebald, perhaps the most important cultu...
Don't Polish the Pedestal
Yesterday, I tendered that we are all too keen to defend the creatures we know as composers (but never knew as men and women). Mahler, I ma...
100 Years of Lost Time
On Entartete Musik , throughout November, I'll be marking 100 years since the publication of Du côté de chez Swann , the first volume of...
Transgressive Relations in the Archive
Scribe has just issued a novel from the first two decades of the 20th century. This would, in the case of most books, be an ordinary act. B...
Torchbearer or Parasite?
Having written 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats' in February 1939, W.H. Auden later penned a rather more cutting response to the Irish Bard....
I come to praise...
The Britten centenary has, by its very nature, expended a lot of energy looking back over the composer’s life and work. Alongside triumphant...
That was the Year that Was
Anecdotal histories are all the rage. Last year Kevin Jackson skipped through 1922 in his Constellation of Genius , charting social, cultura...
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