Deceptively Simple

We’ve (the Blogger Book Club) been discussing art critic Dave Hickey’s fascinating, challenging (and brief) The Invisible Dragon on Molly Sheridan’s Mind the Gap, so go there for entire group’s entries. This is my first.
I was struck by the radically American democratic call to arms (I almost wrote cri de coeur) that runs through each [...]

The University of Oklahoma Press recently brought to fruition a work of scholarship several years in the making, at least seven, I think, perhaps more. On the Western Front with the Rainbow Division: A World War I Diary contains the written-down thoughts of Vernon Kniptash, a member of the Indiana National Guard whose grandparents immigrated [...]

Mozart’s Requiem exists in a handful of version completed by others — his student Süssmayr, pianist Robert Levin — but leave it to the trombone section to make it swing. Here are New York Philharmonic principal trombone Joseph Alessi, jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and the Juilliard Trombone Choir with an arrangement of the Tuba mirum. [...]

Has it actually been 15 days since the last post? Yes? Okay. Must improve. A few random updates:
Courtesy of Alex Ross, we now have das Mahlerblög, with Mahler’s publisher Universal Edition sitting down with the likes of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, and Daniele Gatti to schoot the breeze about Gustav.
The Chicago Symphony’s Dvorak Festival (DVOUR [...]