28 December 2018
In Memoriam Sister Wendy
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Two days ago I spent some of my Boxing Day watching Sister Wendy art documentaries from the 90s, which have held up extremely well. (That...
17 June 2018
Regarding Gibbons
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Glenn Gould, when asked his favorite composer, gave an unexpected answer: Orlando Gibbons. At first glance, this seems an irritatingly cont...
30 December 2017
On New Music
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The classical music canon needs little defending. Time has the effect of weeding out bad music, which is why nearly everything we hear from...
25 December 2017
Robert Herrick: "A Christmas Carol"
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What sweeter music can we bring, Than a carol, for to sing The birth of this our heavenly King? Awake the voice! Awake the string! Heart...
25 July 2017
An Introduction to Freely-Composed Organ Works
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In my former treatise , I explained the chief difficulty of the average organist: (s)he is not an organist at all, but rather a confused and...
24 July 2017
Lincoln in the Bardo
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When it was published this past winter, I made a mental note that I wished to read George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo . The review...
29 July 2016
Further Adventures in Lincolniana
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As happens every year or so, I've been on another Lincoln kick. Last summer I revisited the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, as well as v...
26 July 2016
An Evensong for Bach, Handel, and Purcell
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The Episcopalian sanctorale, to the extent that it is observed at all, is a higgledy-piggledy affair. But it is gratifying, nonetheless, to...
25 March 2016
John Donne: Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day.
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1608 Tamely, frail body, abstain to-day; to-day My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away. She sees him man, so like God made in this, ...
12 August 2015
Acetaria Caesaris apud Juliam
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Among culinary innovations of the last century, there are few as widespread, or as variable, as the Caesar salad. Rather like the sandwich ...
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