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“Dancer and Dance” [by Jim Cummins]
Dancer and Dance When he was young, he thought his narcissismwas anguish; but it was just narcissism.Everyone’s in some kind of anguish or other—or do the Protestants merely suffer?Protestants buy things; it helps the…
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Malcolm Bradbury on Paul de Man and “Signs of the Times”
The New York Times Book Review February 24, 1991 The Scholar Who Misread History By MALCOLM BRADBURY [pictured left] SIGNS OF THE TIMESDeconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man.By David Lehman. ate in…
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“Ariodante”: a cinematic live performance experience from Frédéric Savoir [By Tracy Danison]
The cast of Les Arts Florissants from ”Ariodante”, the film by Frédéric Savoir. Photo © Amazing Digital Studios In what is, as far as I am concerned, a first, the filmmaker Frédéric Savoir has managed to…
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A Toast to Lionel Trilling on his Birthday (July 4, 1905)
Arnold, Goethe, and Homer You ask what I like about Trilling’s writing and I pull out the Viking Portable Arnold and turn to page twenty-five of his introduction: “He [Arnold] could join Goethe…
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Les Arts Florissants: dealing with the artefact in opera as performance
Ariodante, Léa Desandre, mezzo-soprano, with Les Arts Florissants’ founder and conductor William Christie. Photo ©Amazing Digital Studios. Frédéric Savoir’s cinematic Ariodante, performed by the baroque performance group Les Arts Florissants – along with recent…
