Monday, November 30, 2009
First in a series When I was 12 going on 13, and newly in the sixth grade at Delta Middle School, I had an English teacher by the name of Eileen Wilcox. She had the distinction of teaching Honors English (did we call it Challenge English?), and was one of those irrationally exuberant people who [...]
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Ring Cycle as Imagined by Felix Mendelssohn: “My best thanks also for your last letter. Do you know, I think your suggestion as to the Nibelungen most luminous? It has been constantly in my head ever since, and I mean to employ my first leisure day in reading over the poem, for I have [...]