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My Goal is to go to Mongolia [by David Lehman]
All day yesterday I tried to write a song in the Cole Porter manner beginning "My goal is to go to Mongolia," but the melody of "Columbia, the gem of the ocean" kept getting…
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François Gremaud & Samantha van Wissen’s “Giselle…”: A model classic [by Tracy Danison]
Samantha van Wissen. “Giselle… Comédie Ballet” by François Gremaud. Photo © Dorothée Thébert Filliger Theater pieces always manage a “…triumph…” or a “… wonderful…” printed on the program. Could mean anything – “With thousands of…
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More Clerihews [with thanks to Rick Winston]
In 1995, Henry Rathvon and Emily Cox ran a clerihew challenge, and Rick Winston made a copy of the results: <<< ***Results of Clerihews in the News*** Mr. Rathvon and Ms. CoxDon't fit any…
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“Australia” by Ania Walwicz [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
In Ania Walwicz’s “Australia” we get a critique of the country through the eyes of an outsider. The poem’s diction (a vibrant, broken English), paired with the accuracy of complaints (“You silent on Sunday.…
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: JANUARY 18, 2023
Let’s all raise a glass to poet Rick Mulkey, whose ode exquisitely captures “the liquid mystery train / of peril and possibility.” “Concerning Whiskey” was first published in MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature…
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The Piano Music of Charles Ives
The Piano Music of Charles Ives – Master Class with Dave Frank www.davefrankjazz.com Join NYC piano monster Dave Frank for a thoroughly unique, in-depth introduction to the life and music of America's…
