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Photographer Benoîte Fanton’s dance vision: Get on up, hold on! [by Tracy Danison]
"L'Arène", from Don Quichotte de Trocadéro: Choreographer: Jose Montalvo/Performers: Sandra Mercky, Patrice Thibaud/Venue:Théâtre National de Chaillot, 2013 Monsieur Loyal commente la ballerine s’évente et pique la piste en vrille rouge banderille …
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“The Clock,” a prose poem by Charles Baudelaire [trans. David Lehman]
The Clock – for a lady How do the Chinese tell time? By looking at the eyes of theircats. Here’s how. A lost missionary, afoot in a sleepy suburb of Nankin, hadforgotten his watch…
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“Job Interview” [by William Matthews]
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch’s wifeHe would have written sonnets all his life?DON JUAN, III, 63-4 “Where do you see yourself five years from now?”the eldest male member (or is “male member”a…
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Born Today: Fletcher Henderson [by Archie Rand]
Fletcher Henderson pioneered in the transformation of Dixieland to a highly sophisticated “big band” music. Hiring great soloists, like Louis Armstrong, had him direct Don Redman to write complex orchestral arrangements. Recognition of the…
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Happy birthday, Ludwig Van!
My father, Joseph Lehman, shared his birthday– December 17 — with the greatest of all composers (who was baptised on December 17). Here is Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" (opus 133). — DL
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What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
[A Book Recommendation by Dante Di Stefano] What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of TrumpEd. Martín EspadaCurbstone Books, 2019 In his essay, “Filthy Presidentiad: Walt Whitman in the Age…
